TORONTO \u2014 Week 9 is here and with it CFL.ca\u2019s Game Notes, full of information about players and this week\u2019s matchups, including:<\/p>\n
Winnipeg leads the league with 15 sacks; BC has allowed the most (16). Check out all CFL.ca\u2019s Game Notes for Week 9 below.<\/p>\n RELATED Game Notes<\/p>\n BC at Winnipeg Montreal at Ottawa Calgary at Hamilton Saskatchewan at Edmonton THREE-OF-A-KIND<\/p>\n Last week, Tyreik McAllister scored a 17-yard rushing major, a 56-yard receiving touchdown and a 118-yard return TD. CRACKED THE CODE-Y<\/p>\n Last week, Cody Fajardo<\/a> completed 78.1 per cent of his pass attempts for a career-high and league-wide season-high 510 yards. LEAGUE-WIDE<\/p>\n Two teams have come back to win after trailing after three quarters: Montreal (three times) and Saskatchewan (twice). BC (1-5) at WPG (4-3)<\/p>\n Winnipeg has won the team\u2019s past four matchups. MTL (6-1) at OTT (0-6)<\/p>\n Week 4: OTT 35 \u2013 MTL 37<\/a> CGY (3-4) at HAM (3-4)<\/p>\n Calgary swept the 2025 season series 2-0. SSK (4-2) at EDM (6-1)<\/p>\n Week 8: EDM 36 \u2013 SSK 34<\/a>
\nIn the teams\u2019 first meeting between Ottawa and Montreal, Kalil Pimpleton<\/a> had 338 combined yards. He had 101 receiving yards in his last game.
\nIn five games, Calgary Stampeders rookie Zy Alexander has four interceptions to lead the league.
\nRookie T.J. Luther recorded his first 100-receiving yard+ game last week (157).
\nTrevor Harris<\/a> is 8-7 against Edmonton. He is 288 passing yards shy of becoming the 12th player to reach 40,000 in his career.<\/p>\n
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\nHe was the first player in CFL history to score a TD in three different ways in the same game, doing so in the same half.
\nHe has seven career touchdowns (three return, three receiving and one rushing).
\nHe finished the game with 318 combined yards.<\/p>\n
\nFajardo added a career-high four passing TDs, while earning a perfect passer rating of 158.3 for the first time.
\nHe is the fourth player to record 500+ passing yards, four TDs and no interceptions.
\nThe last Edmonton pivot to reach the 500-yard mark was Michael Reilly<\/a> (511) in 2013.
\nThe performance was the 35thtime a player has passed for 500+ yards and the first since Ricky Ray<\/a> (506) in 2017.<\/p>\n
\nBig plays are up 21 per cent over 2025.
\n21 receivers are on pace for 1,000-yard seasons, while four running backs are on pace to reach the millennium mark.
\nDefences have averaged 1.3 more sacks per game over the past three weeks (4.5 from 3.2).<\/p>\n
\nWinnipeg leads the league with 15 sacks; BC has allowed the most (16).
\nBC\u2019s league-leading net defence holds opponents to 366.5 yards per game, while allowing a league-low 54.8 rushing yards per game.
\nKaidon Salters has been tabbed for his first CFL start. In his first two collegiate years at Liberty, CFHOF member Kent Austin was his offensive coordinator.
\nMathieu Betts<\/a> is one sack shy of becoming the ninth Canadian to reach 50 in his career. His next tackle will be his 150th.
\nKeon Hatcher Sr. has registered at least 64 receiving yards in each of his five games.
\nFrom 2017-25, Winnipeg was 54-14 (.800) at home. This season, they are 1-3.
\nDru Brown<\/a> is a career 1-2 against BC.
\nBrady Oliveira<\/a> recorded his 23rd career 100-rushing yard+ performance last week to move into 2nd all-time among Canadians behind Andrew Harris<\/a>\u2019s 29. He also became the fifth Canadian to reach the 6,000-rushing-yard milestone, while reaching third on the Bombers\u2019 all-time list (6,031) behind Charles Roberts (9,987) and Leo Lewis (8,861).
\nRookie Major Williams is tied for the league-lead with seven pass knockdowns, while registering 32 defensive tackles and one interception.
\nWillie Jefferson<\/a> has four sacks in his last three games, including at least one in each. He is tied for the league lead (five).<\/p>\n
\nMontreal leads the league with 443 yards of net offence per game, while Ottawa allows the second-most at 426.2 per game.
\nOff of 14 turnovers, Montreal has yielded six points.
\nDavis Alexander<\/a> is a career 5-0 against Ottawa.
\nTravis Theis has recorded 100+ rushing yards in each of his past two games, including a career-best 156 last week. He has one touchdown in each of his past five games.
\nIn their Week 4 matchup, Tyson Philpot<\/a> had 12 receptions for 198 yards. He is 161 yards shy of his first 1,000-yard campaign.
\nAlexandre Gagn\u00e9 is tied with Darryl Townsend (93) for second on Montreal\u2019s all-time list for special teams tackles \u2013 he is one shy of tying Chip Cox<\/a> for first.
\nJake Maier is a career 1-4-1 against Montreal. He recorded 344 passing yards in his last game on a 75 per cent completion rate.
\nIn the teams\u2019 first meeting, Kalil Pimpleton<\/a> had 338 combined yards. He had 101 receiving yards in his last game.
\nIn his past two games, Ayden Eberhardt<\/a> has 16 catches for 247 yards and a TD.
\nDemerio Houston<\/a> has 194 career defensive tackles.
\nBrett Lauther<\/a> is 20-for-20 on field goal attempts, including 6-for-6 from 40+ yards.<\/p>\n
\nCalgary ranks first in offensive points per game (37), with two 50+ point showings. They have scored 31 offensive TDs \u2013 seven more than second place.
\nVernon Adams Jr. is 7-4 against Hamilton. He has thrown at least three TDs in each of his past five games.
\nIn his past two games, Jalen Philpot has 10 receptions for 224 yards and two TDs. He is on pace for a career-high 1,376 yards.
\nIn five games, rookie Zy Alexander has four interceptions to lead the league.
\nLast week, Ben Labrosse became the third player since 1994 to record three interceptions, joining Stavros Katsantonis<\/a> (2025) and Greg Knox (1994).
\nHamilton owns the second-best net defence (369.7 yards per game), while allowing the fewest passing yards (283.1).
\nThe Ticats have averaged 15.5 points over their past four games.
\nTre Ford is a career 2-2 against Calgary.
\nKiondr\u00e9 Smith is 70 receiving yards shy of 3,500, while Kurleigh Gittens Jr.<\/a> needs 30 yards for 4,000.
\nLast week, Isaiah Wooden had 212 combined yards, including a 100-yard punt return TD.<\/p>\n
\nIn Week 8, the teams combined for 70 points, 896 passing yards, 974 total yards, eight touchdowns and eight lead changes.
\nTrevor Harris<\/a> is 8-7 against Edmonton. He is 288 passing yards shy of becoming the 12th player to reach 40,000 in his career.
\nSaskatchewan has the No. 2 red zone percentage, scoring a TD on 76 per cent of trips, and the No. 2 red zone defence, allowing a major on 47.8 per cent of opportunities.
\nEdmonton is 5-0 is games decided in the final three minutes.
\nEdmonton has not won the teams\u2019 season series since 2016.
\nEdmonton last started 4-0 at home in 2019.
\nAt this point last season, the Elks were 1-6.
\nCody Fajardo<\/a> is 2-1 against his former team. Last week in the teams\u2019 first matchup this season, he equalled his career-high in total touchdowns, having recorded three passing and one rushing on two occasions.
\nLast week, Vincent Blanchard\u2019s 57-yard walk-off field goal was the longest since 2004.
\nAustin Mack had a career-high 173 receiving yards last week, including 57- and 81-yard touchdowns.
\nRookie T.J. Luther recorded his first 100-receiving yard+ game last week (157).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Week 9 is here and with it CFL.ca\u2019s Game Notes, full of information about players and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-836090","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\/836090","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=836090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}