{"id":833529,"date":"2026-07-29T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833529\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:23:56","slug":"cody-fajardo-tyreik-mcallister-and-travis-theis-earn-cfl-top-player-honours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833529\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Fajardo, Tyreik McAllister and Travis Theis earn CFL top player honours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton Elks quarterback Cody Fajardo, Calgary Stampeders returner Tyreik McAllister and running back Travis Theis of the Montreal Alouettes were named the CFL&#8217;s players of the week Tuesday,<\/p>\n<p>Fajardo completed 25-of-32 passes for a career-high 510 yards with four TDs in Edmonton&#8217;s 36-34 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fajardo had four completions of 30-plus yards, including touchdown passes of 57 and 81 yards to Austin Mack in the second half while finishing with a perfect 158.3 efficiency rating.<\/p>\n<p>McAllister became the first player in CFL history to score rushing, receiving and return TDs in a half, doing so in Calgary&#8217;s 52-30 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McAllister returned a missed field goal 118 yards for a touchdown and scored multiple times in a game for the first time in his CFL career.<\/p>\n<p>Theis ran 19 times \u2014 tying his career high \u2014 for a career-best 156 yards and a touchdown in Montreal&#8217;s 31-18 home win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. It is the second straight week Theis has earned top player recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks quarterback Cody Fajardo, Calgary Stampeders returner Tyreik McAllister and running back Travis Theis of the Montreal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-833529","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\/833529","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=833529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}