{"id":33582,"date":"2025-07-30T05:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33582\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:37:07","slug":"riders-look-to-continue-cfl-best-pass-rush-against-montreal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33582\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders look to continue CFL-best pass rush against Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though Micah Johnson<\/a> is in year 12 of his CFL career, he\u2019s still doing new things\u2014like getting a walkoff sack for a victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome. That might be my first one like that\u2014a game-winning sack at the end,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThat might be the first walk-off for sure. I need to check up on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old sacked Cody Fajardo<\/a> on the final play in a 21-18 win over the Edmonton Elks<\/a> on Friday. That was one of two sacks he had in the game with the Riders, recording eight in total\u2014Malik Carney<\/a> and Shane Ray also had a pair, while A.J. Allen and C.J. Reavis also had a sack each.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think guys rushing together (led to the success). It\u2019s crazy because I think we have been rushing well. I think personally, I have been rushing well but sometimes the sacks don\u2019t come,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor it to all come together for us, it was pretty awesome because as D-line, you can have a lot of good rushes and don\u2019t wind up getting a sack. I think it finally came together for us just as a group where it wasn\u2019t just one guy who had a good game, we all had it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That performance now has the Riders as the league leaders when it comes to sacks, having 20 thus far in the 2025 CFL season. They have four more than the second-place Montreal Alouettes, who the Riders take on at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Kickoff for the game is set for 5 p.m. The Green Zone pregame show<\/a> will begin at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Riders haven\u2019t won in Montreal since 2021, when current Riders quarterback Trevor Harris<\/a> was a member of the Als and came into the game after Matthew Shiltz struggled. That was a 19-14 win for Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust catching that flight out there and the homefield advantage\u2014the fans are great out there. They are a physical football team, and we feel like we are made up the same way,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Montreal, when you go there, you\u2019re going to get a real physical battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Riders returned to practice on Tuesday, there were nine players who did not practice. Mario Alford (hip), Carney (ankle), Dhel Duncan-Busby (shoulder), Sam Emilus (knee), Zack Fry (head), Daniel Johnson (shoulder), Lake Korte-Moore (knee), Aubrey Miller Jr. (knee), and Reavis (foot) didn\u2019t practice on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though Micah Johnson is in year 12 of his CFL career, he\u2019s still doing new things\u2014like getting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-33582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33582","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=33582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}