{"id":6634,"date":"2025-07-18T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6634\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:13:07","slug":"former-psu-quarterback-runs-it-in-himself-matches-cfl-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6634\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PSU quarterback runs it in himself, matches CFL record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quarterback Davis Alexander out of Portland State led an 18-point comeback in Montreal\u2019s 26-25 win over Toronto on Thursday night, matching a Canadian Football League record in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 25-7, Alexander fired a 10-yard touchdown pass to C. Spieker on the final play of the third quarter to spark the comeback. He connected with Spieker again for a 38-yard gain midway through the fourth quarter that led to a short touchdown run on the next play to bring the Alouettes within five points.<\/p>\n<p>A late Toronto fumble set Montreal up for its winning chance, and Alexander took full advantage with a 10-yard run over the goal line for the go-ahead touchdown with 1:46 to play.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Alexander improves to 8-0 in starts to begin his Canadian Football League career, a run that stretches from last season.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal improved to 4-2 this season and leads the Eastern Division. Alexander missed two starts due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander completed 26 of 39 passes for 303 yards with a touchdown and an interception, while rushing three times for 23 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander goes for the CFL record ninth straight win to start his career on Thursday at Calgary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Davis Alexander out of Portland State led an 18-point comeback in Montreal\u2019s 26-25 win over Toronto on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[7335,49,48,521,522,520,7337,2338,7338,3611,82,3302,7336],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-alexander","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-comeback","tag-montreal","tag-quarterback","tag-record","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-touchdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","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=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}