The Alouettes will be making seven changes to their lineup this week, including the addition of veteran receiver Charleston Rambo. The 27-year-old signed with the Als last week after being a free agent since last February. <\/p>\n
\u201cRambo is as advertised,\u201d head coach Jason Maas said. \u201cHe\u2019s ready to play. He\u2019s in shape, he\u2019s catching the ball well, and he knows our offence. That was the beauty of going out and getting him late in the year was that. He\u2019s a veteran receiver that knows our system and that we can rely on and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had 585 receiving yards and three touchdowns in 17 regular season games in 2025. Rambo made a key reception in the 2025 East Final in Hamilton to help get the Alouettes in field goal range for the game-winning kick. <\/p>\n
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The Alouettes will be featuring a new kick returner on Friday, as Mekhi Mews will make his CFL debut. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe watched him return in college and he did a very good job,\u201d Maas said of Mews. \u201cHe did a good job as a receiver from the clips I watched. He\u2019s here for a reason. It\u2019s like we always say, our guys are here because of their ability, toughness and effort they\u2019ve shown prior to their stop here. Since he\u2019s been here, he\u2019s done a good job of learning our system and doing the things we\u2019ve asked him to do. He\u2019ll be ready to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mews is getting an opportunity to suit up after star returner DeVonte Dedmon suffered an injury in Vancouver last Saturday night. <\/p>\n
Cornerback Kabion Ento was also hurt against B.C. while Don Callis was suspended for one game for his involvement in the scuffle on the Als sideline last week. <\/p>\n
With those two players being unavailable, rookie Neil Campbell will make his CFL debut and his first start.<\/p>\n
Running back Shomari Lawrence, Marco Dubois and Lwal Uguak will all jump into the lineup. Cole Spieker, Liam Talbot and David Perales will all miss the contest.<\/p>\n
Change with short yardage quarterback<\/p>\n
The other change that the Alouettes will make will come at quarterback where Terry Wilson will be swapped out for Caleb Evans. <\/p>\n
Evans is expected to take over the short yardage duties. <\/p>\n
Evans has spent the last three seasons with the Als. He suffered a season-ending knee injury last year in B.C. and wasn\u2019t re-signed when his contract expired in February. <\/p>\n
The 28-year-old has proven to be one of the top quarterbacks at performing the sneak. He had an impressive 16 rushing touchdowns in 2022, and he added 14 rushing majors in 36 games as an Alouette.<\/p>\n
Tough matchup against a division rival<\/p>\n
Even though the Alouettes won the first two games against the Tiger-Cats, they know Friday\u2019s matchup won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n
In both contests, the Ticats defence played very well, as they were able to limit the explosive plays by the Als offence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey play fundamentally sound defence,\u201d quarterback Davis Alexander said of the Ticats. \u201cThey do a good job of minimizing explosions. They\u2019re a well-coached group, and they\u2019re definitely a fun defence to watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the team\u2019s we\u2019re playing are forcing us to play a little more patient just because of our big-play ability. As long as I do my job, that should get us in the right spots.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bye week coming up<\/p>\n
The Alouettes are clearly banged up heading into this game, but there is some good news on the horizon. After Friday\u2019s clash against Hamilton, they\u2019ll get to enjoy some time away from the field as they\u2019ll be heading into their third and final bye week of the regular season. <\/p>\n
Their next game will be played at home against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alouettes will be making seven changes to their lineup this week, including the addition of veteran receiver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-899458","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\/899458","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=899458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}