TORONTO — Mobil Thanksgiving Weekend is in the books and there were plenty of standout performers.<\/p>\n
In a festive weekend filled with highlight plays and notable individual performances including James Butler’s strong running game and Davis Alexander’s season-high in touchdown passes, here are three PFF stats and grades that stand out from the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
JAMES BUTLER | RUNNING BACK | BC LIONS | 5 MISSED TACKLES FORCED <\/p>\n
James Butler was highly active again in the rushing department for eight carries while finding the end zone against Ottawa on Mobil Thanksgiving Weekend. <\/p>\n
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The result of five missed tackles forced, according to PFF, put him en route to a total 141 yards from scrimmage, his most since Week 5 against Edmonton. <\/p>\n
DAVIS ALEXANDER | QUARTERBACK | MONTREAL ALOUETTES | 90.2 PASSING GRADE<\/p>\n
Davis Alexander continued his dominance in Week 19. Unloading a season-high five touchdown passes on Mobil Thanksgiving Weekend, he is now tied for the league lead in majors thrown with Vernon Adams Jr. at 35. That achievement helped him earn the highest passing grade of the week (90.2), according to PFF. <\/p>\n
The Alouettes pivot connected on 26 of 33 attempts for over 400 yards in his team’s win over the Roughriders.<\/p>\n
MALIK CARNEY & LORENZO MAULDIN IV | DEFENSIVE LINEMAN | EDMONTON ELKS & BC LIONS | 6 PRESSURES<\/p>\n
Malik Carney and Lorenzo Mauldin IV kept opposing quarterbacks busy shifting in the pocket on Mobil Thanksgiving Weekend. According to PFF, the defensive linemen applied six pressures each in their respective games.<\/p>\n
Carney was a force against the Tiger-Cats offence, picking up six tackles, four sacks, and a forced fumble. Mauldin added three tackles in BC’s victory over the REDBLACKS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — Mobil Thanksgiving Weekend is in the books and there were plenty of standout performers. In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-932576","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\/932576","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=932576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}