{"id":589062,"date":"2026-04-07T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:48:08","slug":"montreal-alouettes-sign-veteran-lb-former-all-star-micah-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589062\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Alouettes sign veteran LB, former All-Star Micah Awe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal Alouettes have made a major addition on the defensive side, as the team announced Tuesday that they have signed former All-Star linebacker Micah Awe for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Awe, 32, spent last season with the BC Lions, where he recorded a league-high 114 defensive tackles along with one forced fumble and two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The eight-year veteran was a CFL All-Star in 2023 with the Calgary Stampeders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe acquisition of Micah Awe will give us added depth on defense,\u201d said Alouettes general manager Danny Maciocia in a press release. \u201cHe knows the league and our organization, and he has always prepared properly. His professionalism will help guide our younger players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Awe will be returning for his second stint with the Alouettes, after he played 13 games with the team in the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over his eight years in the CFL, the native of Lagos, Nigeria has made stops with the Lions, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Redblacks, Alouettes and Stampeders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Awe has 568 tackles, six sacks, seven interceptions and seven forced fumbles over 118 career CFL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Alouettes have made a major addition on the defensive side, as the team announced Tuesday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,79863,82],"class_list":["post-589062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-montreal-alouettes-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-86680","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589062","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=589062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}