The Montreal Alouettes placed quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson on the six-game injured list on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Bethel-Thompson, 37, started Friday’s 23-22 loss to the Edmonton Elks, throwing for 79 yards with an interception.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-3 pivot left the game in the second half after injuring his right elbow and was replaced by Caleb Evans.<\/p>\n
Evans threw for 113 yards with a touchdown in the hard-luck loss.<\/p>\n
This is Bethel-Thompson’s first season with Montreal after he was acquired from the Elks in the off-season in exchange for quarterback Cody Fajardo.<\/p>\n
He has thrown for 957 yards with four touchdowns and five interceptions in six appearances this season.<\/p>\n
Originally signed by the Toronto Argonauts in 2017, Bethel-Thompson has 17,966 throwing yards with 98 touchdowns and 65 interceptions in his seven-season career split between the Argonauts, Elks, and Alouettes.. He\u00a0helped the Argonauts win the Grey Cup in 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n
The Alouettes signed quarterback Cameron Dukes in a corresponding move on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Dukes, 27, appeared in 10 games with the Argonauts last season, throwing for 1,444 yards with seven touchdowns and six interceptions.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot pivot began the pre-season with the Argonauts but was released at the beginning of June.<\/p>\n
Dukes has 2,204 passing yards with nine touchdowns and nine interceptions in his two seasons in the CFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Alouettes placed quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson on the six-game injured list on Wednesday. Bethel-Thompson, 37, started Friday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-66972","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\/66972","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=66972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}