{"id":67062,"date":"2025-08-13T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67062\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:04:07","slug":"als-place-mcleod-bethel-thompson-on-six-game-injured-list-sign-qb-cameron-dukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67062\/","title":{"rendered":"Als place McLeod Bethel-Thompson on six-game injured list; sign QB Cameron Dukes"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL \u2014The Als announced on Wednesday that quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson<\/a> has been placed on the six-game injured list. The team also announced that they have signed American quarterback Cameron Dukes<\/a> and released American defensive back Brandin Dandridge<\/a> and American defensive lineman Byron Vaughns.<\/p>\n

Bethel-Thompson was acquired from the Edmonton Elks in the off-season in a trade involving pivot Cody Fajardo and appeared in nine games, throwing for 957 yards, four touchdowns and five interceptions. Bethel-Thompson was replaced in the game against the Edmonton Elks in Week 10 by quarterback Caleb Evans.<\/p>\n

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Dukes (six-foot, 210 pounds) attended training camp with the Toronto Argonauts in 2025.<\/p>\n

In 2024, he completed 143 of 199 passes for 1,444 yards and seven touchdowns while rushing for 321 yards and four more majors.<\/p>\n

The Kentucky native joined the Argos in 2023, appearing in all 18 games that season while throwing for 760 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Dukes had avery successful career at Lindsey Wilson College (2017-2021) throwing for over 10,000 yards and 114 touchdowns, helping the Blue Raiders win a national championship in 2021.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old would play in the Indoor Football League in 2022, throwing for over 1,000 yards and 27 touchdowns in eight games.<\/p>\n

Montreal now travels to Vancouver to face the BC Lions on Saturday, August 16, in Week 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014The Als announced on Wednesday that quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson has been placed on the six-game injured list.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-67062","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\/67062","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=67062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}