{"id":275822,"date":"2025-11-11T06:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:52:10","slug":"jason-maas-states-davis-alexander-will-start-112th-grey-cup-for-montreal-alouettes-despite-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275822\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Maas states Davis Alexander will start 112th Grey Cup for Montreal Alouettes despite hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo courtesy: CFL\/Thomas Skrlj.<\/p>\n

The Montreal Alouettes landed in Winnipeg on Monday night and everyone was watching Davis Alexander.<\/p>\n

He stopped to sign autographs for kids and then strolled through James Armstrong Richardson International Airport wearing a grey tracksuit with a fresh Grey Cup hat on while walking with a slight limp after re-aggravating his left hamstring injury in the East Final.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to be getting treatment all week. There\u2019s stuff to work through, but he\u2019ll work through it.\u00a0It\u2019s encouraging with the news we got today. He\u2019ll be on a track to play. I know he\u2019s going to start and I know he\u2019s going to play \u2014 that\u2019s the bottom line. We gotta work like hell to get him the best he can be and go out there and compete,\u201d head coach Jason Maas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something he\u2019s played with before, it\u2019s something that\u2019s doable, it was good news today and we\u2019ll roll with that. He\u2019s got a lot of work to do from here until then. I don\u2019t know what the percentage would be, to be quite honest with you. I know we got good news today. I know he\u2019s fully capable of playing with it, he\u2019s played with it before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around the midway point in the fourth quarter against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Alexander grabbed his left hamstring after being tackled near the sideline on second down. The Als did not convert, which eventually allowed the Ticats to kick a 23-yard field goal to tie the game at 16-16 with under two minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Alexander did not miss any plays in the game, taking the field after his team regained possession. He then engineered a seven-play, 37-yard drive leading to a game-winning 45-yard field goal from Jose Maltos D\u00edaz with no time left on the clock. That sent Montreal to the 112th Grey Cup against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavis will be ready, he\u2019ll start and he\u2019ll play. It\u2019s what he\u2019s been dealing with, so there\u2019s a treatment protocol that goes with that and as the week goes on, he\u2019s going to get stronger and stronger,\u201d Maas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s really what ends up happening with those types of injuries. We\u2019ve got a plan for him and we\u2019ve got all hands on deck with him. He\u2019s going to get the best treatment available to us for the next six days and then go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The five-foot-eleven, 210-pound passer completed 19-of-26 pass attempts for 210 yards, one touchdown, one interception in the victory with the score occurring on a deep ball to Tyler Snead. Alexander also ran the ball seven times for 64 yards in the 19-16 East Final win. Maas said his franchise QB was \u201cpretty close\u201d to 100 percent entering the playoff game in Hamilton.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know nobody is 100 percent this time of year. It\u2019s hard to be at 100 percent after 18 games, you play two playoff games, it\u2019s hard to be that. But with adrenaline, with what\u2019s on the line, you push those numbers a little bit and\u00a0you\u2019re giving it all you\u2019ve got until the end. That\u2019s what all of our guys are going to do,\u201d Maas said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know the type of man he is and what he\u2019s going to put into this,\u00a0I know the type of help he\u2019s going to get all week, but percentages, I wouldn\u2019t even want to venture what that percentage is going to be. It\u2019s not going to be 100 percent, but I can tell you this: there aren\u2019t too many people, right now, this time of year playing at 100 percent anyways.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gig Harbor, Wa. native missed 11 regular-season games in 2025 due to his left hamstring injury. Montreal went 7-0 with him as the starter and 3-8 when he was unable to play with McLeod Bethel-Thompson, Caleb Evans, and James Morgan at quarterback.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to play 100 percent. My whole week will be rehab filled. We\u2019ll be ready to go,\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever been 100 percent healthy all the year, I think we knew that after the injury I suffered in Toronto. I felt as healthy as healthy as I\u2019ve ever been going into [the East Final], but something that\u2019s gonna have to heal a little bit in the offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander admitted he was still pretty sore from the game on Saturday, he thought it was the most amount of hits taken in a while. Doctors gave positive news while telling him the degree of his hamstring injury after seeing an MRI. He does not feel as though cold weather is good for the muscle and he\u2019ll use the bike on the sidelines to keep his body warm.<\/p>\n

Montreal\u2019s training staff put in two to three treatment sessions on Alexander\u2019s left hamstring per day in recent weeks and that could be upped to four or five per day during Grey Cup week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say after that Calgary game, the first game I returned in after that week, I felt like I could do everything that I needed to do, everything that I wanted to,\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: CFL\/Thomas Skrlj. The Montreal Alouettes landed in Winnipeg on Monday night and everyone was watching Davis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-275822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}