Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) – Hamilton quarterback Dan LeFevour and Saskatchewan defensive end John Chick were selected as the top players for Week 5 of the CFL season.<\/p>\n
LeFevour was named the Offensive Player of the week after racking up 470 total yards in his first career start. LeFevour threw for 361 yards on 21-for-30 passing while running for 109 yards on 13 carries. The former Central Michigan star also tossed a 53-yard touchdown on Hamilton’s first possession.<\/p>\n
Chick earned Defensive Player of the Week honors for his two-sack performance in a blowout win over Toronto. The Utah State product has at least one sack in each of Saskatchewan’s four games this season and is first in the league with six.<\/p>\n
Also winning Player of the Week honors were Winnipeg kicker Lirim Hajrullahu and Saskatchewan linebacker Samuel Hurl.<\/p>\n
Hajrullahu went a perfect 5-for-5 on field goals and scored 17 points in Winnipeg’s road win over BC to claim Special Teams Player of the Week. He also averaged 43 yards on five punts and added a single in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Hurl was named Canadian Player of the Week after racking up seven tackles and a fumble recovery in the Roughriders win. He is currently tied for fourth in the league with 21 tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) – Hamilton quarterback Dan LeFevour and Saskatchewan defensive end John Chick were selected as the top players for Week 5 of the CFL season. LeFevour was named the Offensive Player of the week after racking up 470 total yards in his first career start. LeFevour threw for 361 yards on 21-for-30 passing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}