{"id":457639,"date":"2026-02-06T13:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:18:22","slug":"quarterback-e-j-perry-joins-the-alouettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457639\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterback E.J. Perry joins the Alouettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal, Oct. 7, 2025 \u2013 The Montreal Alouettes have signed American quarterback E.J. Perry on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Perry (6\u20192\u201d, 210 lb) signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars as a free agent in 2022 and spent his rookie season on the practice squad. Perry also spent time with the Houston Texans the following year before re-joining Jacksonville. The Andover, MS native also played in the UFL.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old played in 20 games over two seasons (2019 and 2021) with the Brown University Bears. He finished his career at Brown second all-time in total offensive yards (7,113) and pass completions (546). He was also third in passing yards (5,981) and touchdowns (45).<\/p>\n<p>His uncle John Perry was the head coach of Merrimack College and was a receivers coach with the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p>The Alouettes also announced the release of quarterback Cameron Dukes (Lindsey Wilson), receiver Jose Barbon (Temple) and offensive Lineman Ed Montilus (North Carolina).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal, Oct. 7, 2025 \u2013 The Montreal Alouettes have signed American quarterback E.J. Perry on Tuesday. Perry (6\u20192\u201d,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-457639","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\/457639","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=457639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}