The Canadian Football League announced today that six members of the BC Lions were named to the West Division All-CFL Team for 2025: quarterback Nathan Rourke, receivers Keon Hatcher Sr. and Justin McInnis, offensive tackle Jarell Broxton, defensive end Mathieu Betts and kicker Sean Whyte.<\/p>\n
Rourke (1st career selection)- along with setting a new single-season Canadian passing record of 5,290 yards, the Canadian pivot led the CFL with a passer efficiency rating of 112.7.<\/p>\n
Rourke\u2019s 564 rushing yards were number one amongst quarterbacks and eighth overall in the CFL. He also engineered 41 touchdowns (31 passing, 10 rushing) in the regular season.<\/p>\n
Hatcher Sr. (2nd career selection)- it was a career year for the man called \u2018Hatch\u2019, as he led the CFL in both receptions (102) and yards (1,688), while scoring nine touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Hatcher Sr. also eclipsed the 100-yard receiving mark on six occasions.<\/p>\n
McInnis (2nd career selection)- another vital piece to this potent offence, McInnis recorded 76 receptions for 1,256 yards across 18 games and matched his career-high total of seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n
The Quebec native had a season-high 159 yards in an overtime victory at Hamilton on August 7, with his big play on a late 3rd and 14 keeping the Lions alive.<\/p>\n
Broxton (1st career selection)- the club\u2019s nominee for Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman, Broxton helped anchor a unit that allowed a CFL-low 20 sacks.<\/p>\n
The left tackle had a CFL-best 81.2 PFF Grade on pass blocking snaps this season.<\/p>\n
Betts (2nd career selection)- the CFL leader with 15 sacks, Betts became the first defensive lineman in over 30 years to record nine sacks across a three-game span.<\/p>\n
Betts added a career-high four forced fumbles to go with 42 defensive tackles, two short of his career-best from 2023.<\/p>\n
Whyte (3rd career selection)- like red wine, Whyte keeps getting better with age. The White Rock native once again led the CFL in field goal percentage after hitting 39 of 41 attempts for a career-best 95.1 mark.<\/p>\n
Earlier this season, Whyte moved past Terry Baker into tenth place on the CFL\u2019s all-time scoring list. He will enter 2026 with 2,223 points, 14 behind Dave Cutler for ninth spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Football League announced today that six members of the BC Lions were named to the West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-491121","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\/491121","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=491121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}