{"id":461086,"date":"2026-02-08T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461086\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:49:09","slug":"montreal-alouettes-qb-davis-alexander-updates-hamstring-injury-that-plagued-him-most-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461086\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Alouettes’ QB Davis Alexander updates hamstring injury that plagued him most of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Davis Alexander is feeling good after having close to 10 weeks to recover from the hamstring injury that limited him for most of the 2025 CFL season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still feel maybe a little bit of scar tissue, but as far as results and data we\u2019re seeing, it\u2019s pretty much 100 percent,\u201d Alexander told the media in Montreal<\/a>. \u201cI actually threw for the first time, picked up a ball for the first time since Grey Cup (on January 29), and that was fun. I felt fine, I feel good \u2014 I was able to roll out and all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as fully coming back 100 percent, we all feel really confident about it. (Calgary receiver) Jalen Philpot, he tore his (hamstring) completely off the bone, I think, a couple years ago, and obviously, he was able to come back off that, and he looks fantastic. Mine\u2019s not as severe as that, so we feel optimistic. Again, I play quarterback; I don\u2019t play receiver. I know I do like to run a little bit, but we feel optimistic, and we\u2019re on the right track.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander was recently flown to Montreal so the team could get an update on his recovery, and it seems as though all parties are pleased with the progress.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old was surprisingly transparent about the injury leading into the Grey Cup, suggesting it may have been caused in part by overtraining during the previous offseason. It seems as though Montreal\u2019s medical staff has since confirmed that, though it\u2019s possible the injury could have been even worse had Alexander not trained as hard as he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was always the guy that tried to push through anything, but I never really had a soft tissue-type injury like this, so I learned my lesson there,\u201d he said. \u201cI was told, basically, I might have overworked it and overworked in general, but because of that, they think that\u2019s why I didn\u2019t completely tear it off the bone, so there\u2019s some good to it and some bad to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander indicated he currently weighs 212 pounds, which he\u2019s happy with as he wants to be between 210 and 215 when the regular season starts. He indicated he reached 220 pounds at one point in 2025, which he felt was too heavy and may have added undue stress on the soft tissue in his hamstring.<\/p>\n

The native of Gig Harbor, Wash., trains with longtime CFL quarterback Chris Streveler in the offseason and is thrilled to be getting back into the swing of things. Though some people would welcome the opportunity to spend weeks on end sitting on the couch, Alexander wasn\u2019t a fan of being off his feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was horrible, I hated it. All the people around me, I was complaining a lot. It\u2019s not in my nature (to sit around the house),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to always do stuff, be active, or else I\u2019m gonna be on the couch watching sports or playing video games, so it\u2019s been great to get back into it, be around competitiveness. The trainers back home, I love them to death, they\u2019re such good guys, and being in a highly competitive environment often.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Alouettes have been relatively quiet during the CFL\u2019s legal tampering period, signing returner DeVonte Dedmon following his release from the Ottawa Redblacks and agreeing to terms with quarterback Dustin Crum<\/a> and receiver Jerreth Sterns<\/a>. The most costly loss is defensive back Marc-Antoine Dequoy, who chose to retire after five seasons with the team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With minimal change heading into 2026, Alexander will be looking to replicate much of the success he had one year ago but do so for a full 18 regular-season games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved. Davis Alexander is feeling good after having close to 10 weeks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,50470,49,48,7028,521,522,520,50475,527,107012,2338,7338,82],"class_list":["post-461086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-alouettes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-davis-alexander","tag-football","tag-hamstring","tag-montreal","tag-quarterback","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461086","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=461086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}