{"id":45596,"date":"2025-08-04T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45596\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:29:08","slug":"shawn-lemon-to-make-2025-debut-for-montreal-alouettes-following-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45596\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Lemon to make 2025 debut for Montreal Alouettes following suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defensive lineman Shawn Lemon is set to make his 2025 debut with the Montreal Alouettes against the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the 36-year-old was reinstated by the league\u00a0after being suspended for gambling on CFL games in 2021 while he was a member of the Calgary Stampeders, including one in which he played in.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2, 248-pound defender has played in 13 seasons for seven different teams\u00a0north of the border, registering 265 tackles, 102 sacks, 30 forced fumbles, and three interceptions across 142 games.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon first joined the Alouettes in 2023, helping the team\u00a0win a Grey Cup the same season, nabbing a sack and three tackles in the big game.<\/p>\n<p>In 17 regular-season games for Montreal\u00a0he has recorded 32 tackles, 10 sacks, two interceptions, and a forced fumble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensive lineman Shawn Lemon is set to make his 2025 debut with the Montreal Alouettes against the Saskatchewan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-45596","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\/45596","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=45596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}