Montreal Alouettes<\/a> midway through the 2023 season after taking a hiatus from the CFL and winning a 2023 XFL Championship with the Arlington Renegades. He joined the Alouettes, who were 7-7 at the time, and the team went on to win their final 4 regular season games and go on to win the Grey Cup. Sankey remains the only player to win both an XFL\/USFL\/UFL Championship and a Grey Cup in the same year.<\/p>\n\u201cDarnell is a proven impact player in this league.\u00a0 He will improve our linebacker room and bring the grit and toughness we\u2019re looking for on our defence,\u201d stated Lions\u2019 General Manager Ryan Rigmaiden.<\/p>\n
Sankey played a vital part in Montreal\u2019s recent trips to the Grey Cups. This past postseason, he recorded 13 tackles and an interception. For how I track stops, he made 2 solo run stops, 6 shared run stops, 3 solo stops against the pass, and 2 shared stops against the pass over the 3 playoff games.<\/p>\n
In Montreal\u2019s Grey Cup-winning run in 2023, he made 22 tackles, 3 sacks, 2 interceptions, 2 passes defended, and a fumble recovery over postseason games. He had 3 solo run stops and 3 shared run stops over that postseason (by my count).<\/p>\n
Sankey has played in 42 regular-season games for Montreal, recording 239 tackles, 4 sacks, and 2 interceptions. He has played in 74 total CFL regular-season games, racking up 456 tackles, 8 sacks, 3 interceptions, and 8 forced fumbles.<\/p>\n
In the XFL, he recorded 47 total tackles (20 solo, 27 assisted) and a sack over 8 regular-season games with the Arlington Renegades in 2023 and added 2 solo tackles and 6 assisted tackles in the postseason.<\/p>\n
Sankey\u2019s CFL career began with Calgary in 2021, where he recorded 97 tackles. In 2022, he had 120 tackles, 3 sacks, an interception, and 2 forced fumbles with Saskatchewan. Prior to joining the CFL, he played in 6 games with the Indianapolis Colts and also had stints with Denver, Oakland, Kansas City, Baltimore, and Detroit between 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Lions announced on Friday the signing of LB Darnell Sankey to a one-year contract. Sankey was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-356442","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\/356442","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=356442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}