{"id":818388,"date":"2026-07-22T10:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:27:33","slug":"veteran-returner-receiver-alford-among-three-players-released-by-montreal-alouettes-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818388\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran returner\/receiver Alford among three players released by Montreal Alouettes | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784696603_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Montreal Alouettes&#8217; Mario Alford, left, runs the football as Calgary Stampeders&#8217; Ludovick Choquette grabs for him during first half CFL football action in Calgary, Saturday, July 18, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 21, 2026 | 2:07 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Veteran American receiver\/returner Mario Alford was among three players released Tuesday by the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n<p>Also let go were Canadian Hakeem Harris and American Terique Owens, both receivers.<\/p>\n<p>Alford was in his second stint with Montreal after playing previously with the CFL club in 2019 and 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>He signed with the Alouettes after being released during the preseason by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Alford appeared in four games this season with Montreal, returning 20 punts for 226 yards (11.3-yard average) and 14 kickoffs for 293 yards (20.9-yard average).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Alouettes&#8217; Mario Alford, left, runs the football as Calgary Stampeders&#8217; Ludovick Choquette grabs for him during first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[879,49,48,521,522,2467,520,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-818388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-cfl","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818388","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=818388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}