{"id":25977,"date":"2014-11-18T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/eskimos-white-lawrence-among-cfls-best\/"},"modified":"2014-11-18T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:35:00","slug":"eskimos-white-lawrence-among-cfls-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/eskimos-white-lawrence-among-cfls-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskimos&#8217; White, Lawrence among CFL&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Edmonton Eskimos running back John White and return specialist Kendial Lawrence were among those selected as the CFL&#8217;s best for the division semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>White captured the offensive weekly honor after he ran for 134 yards on 17 carries and caught two passes for 14 yards in Edmonton&#8217;s 18-10 win over Saskatchewan in the West Division semifinal, while Lawrence was named the top special teams player thanks to his 84-yard punt return for a touchdown. Lawrence finished with 156 combined return yards.<\/p>\n<p>Eskimos defensive lineman Gregory Alexandre was named the top Canadian of the week after he recorded a pair of sacks in the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal defensive back Jerald Brown earned the defensive honor. He collected five tackles with an interception and also returned a fumble 103 yards for a touchdown in the Alouettes&#8217; 50-17 East Division semifinal win over British Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Edmonton Eskimos running back John White and return specialist Kendial Lawrence were among those selected as the CFL&#8217;s best for the division semifinals. White captured the offensive weekly honor after he ran for 134 yards on 17 carries and caught two passes for 14 yards in Edmonton&#8217;s 18-10 win over Saskatchewan [&hellip;]<\/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-25977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977","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=25977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}