The 2026 Montreal Alouettes training camp is underway in Quebec City at the Universit\u00e9 Laval PEPS, and one of the players ecstatic to be preparing for the 2026 CFL season is quarterback Davis Alexander.<\/p>\n
Alexander has recovered 100 percent from his hamstring injury that dogged him last season and is enjoying being back handling the ball. \u201cit\u2019s great to be back out here with all the guys,\u201d Davis Alexander said by phone from Quebec City. \u201cA lot of new faces, a lot of new people. People getting acclimated to the rules and stuff. We\u2019re just trying to practice what we preach and compete every day and help the younger guys and make sure we\u2019re the best overall team we can be throughout camp and well rounded and just continue to get better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the course of the winter and then into April when Alexander returned to Montreal to complete his rehabbing, he made certain to follow the game plan precisely. \u201cI came back, I believe April 12,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cI got to work out with the guys, got to see the trainers again, for another three or four weeks before I came out to Quebec City feeling 100% healthy, feeling ready to go, and just making sure to stay at it, making sure to stay part of the rehab and injury prevention and all that stuff, just to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The key to his successful return stemmed from not pushing his rehabilitation more than was prescribed. \u201cI like to get after it a little bit,\u201d he said. \u201cI like to push myself as much as I can. I think I learned a little bit from that last year but, I\u2019m still not going to change. I\u2019m still going to work extremely hard, and just find different ways to get better. Instead of lifting twice a day, we\u2019re doing lift and then maybe a mobility session at nighttime, or lift, and then maybe a core session, core and stretch at nighttime instead of double lift.\u201d<\/p>\n
The quarterback situation for Montreal will see new back-ups for Alexander. Dustin Crum was signed as a free agent from Ottawa to serve as the main backup to Alexander. Anthony Brown Jr. signed to a two-year contract, the former NFL quarterback (who previously spent time with the Baltimore Ravens) is now the lone remaining quarterback competing directly behind Alexander and Crum. \u201cThis is a difficult offense to learn,\u201d he said. \u201cI went through it, and luckily, I had Cody (Fajardo) to help me out. Cody was unbelievable to me. I\u2019m kind of trying to take that Cody role and help these guys as best as they can, because the better our room is, the better I\u2019m going to be. That\u2019s what we preach in this organization, it\u2019s just compete, compete, compete. The better I can get Anthony and Crum to be, the better it\u2019s going to make me. And I\u2019m only going to learn more and more by teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n
Montreal will play two pre-season games against the Ottawa Redblacks, the first will be at Percival Molson Stadium Friday night with a 7:00 p.m. kickoff. \u201cit\u2019s always a privilege to play in the nest,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s always a privilege to play in front of our amazing fan base. We know that they\u2019re going to bring the juice, and we\u2019re so excited to play in front of them. It feels like it\u2019s been seven months, which I think it has. We\u2019re excited, and just can\u2019t wait to get back into the flow of things.\u201d n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Montreal Alouettes training camp is underway in Quebec City at the Universit\u00e9 Laval PEPS, and one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[3050,49,48,521,522,520,39829,52047,19826,52045,2684,52042,2703,7338,52044,82,39828],"class_list":["post-682221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-american-football","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-gridiron-football","tag-gridiron-football-variants","tag-national-football-league","tag-nfl-seasons","tag-nfl-teams","tag-nfl-teams-seasons","tag-professional-sports-leagues","tag-quarterback","tag-seasons-in-american-football","tag-sports","tag-team-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682221","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=682221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}