MONTREAL \u2014 The Montreal Alouettes announced Thursday that the team has reached an agreement with American defensive lineman Shawn Lemon for the remainder of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Lemon previously wore the Alouettes\u2019 jersey in 2023 and 2024, playing in four games last season.<\/p>\n
In just 13 contests in 2023, he recorded 26 defensive tackles, nine sacks, while batting down four passes. The 36-year-old also notched two interceptions and forced a fumble that he returned for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very happy to have Shawn back with us,\u201d said Montreal Alouettes general manager Danny Maciocia. \u201cWith him, we\u2019re a better team. Shawn has taken care of his body throughout his career, he knows our system and most of our players, and we\u2019re confident he\u2019ll help us win games. This is a fresh start for him with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
RELATED The former University of Akron standout has spent 13 seasons in the CFL, winning the Grey Cup three times, and accumulating 102 career sacks.<\/p>\n Before arriving in Montreal, he played for Saskatchewan, Edmonton, Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa, and BC. Lemon has been named a Division All-CFL player twice.<\/p>\n In the Grey Cup game against Winnipeg, he tallied three defensive tackles and a sack to help the Alouettes capture the eighth title in franchise history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 The Montreal Alouettes announced Thursday that the team has reached an agreement with American defensive lineman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-7359","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\/7359","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=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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