Week 16 in the CFL

Mark Perry
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Week 16 in the CFL

Stats and storylines heading into this week’s action

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LEAGUE-WIDE

  • TDs are up 0.9 per game vs. 2025

  • TDs have been scored on 22 per cent of possessions – an all-time high

  • Teams have averaged 6.9 yards per offensive play

  • Kickers have been successful on the last 33 field goal attempts

  • There were 76 20-yard runs in 2025; through 15 weeks, there have been 74 this season

  • Potential milestone games:

    • 100th | Joseph Zema (MTL), Régis Cibasu (MTL), David Ungerer III (TOR)

HALL OF FAME GAME: MTL (10-3) at HAM (4-9)

  • Week 1: MTL 30 – HAM 27

  • Week 8: HAM 18 – MTL 31

  • Since 2022, Montreal is 9-3 in the teams’ matchups.

  • Montreal’s number to clinch first in the East is three.

  • Davis Alexander is a career 4-0 against Hamilton. He has yet to lose two consecutive games and against East division foes, he’s 14-0.

  • Tyson Philpot needs 565 yards over five games (an average of 113 per game) to tie Allen Pitts’s record for most receiving yards in a single season (2,036).

  • Tyrice Beverette is seven defensive tackles away from 400.

  • Montreal has made the most 30-yard completions (31); Hamilton has allowed the fewest (13).

  • Hamilton has not allowed a kick return TD this season.

  • Harrison Frost will face Montreal as a starter for the first time in his career. This will be his third career start (1-1).

  • Keric Wheatfall’s next catch will be his 100th. In the teams’ two previous meetings, he had ten.

  • In Week 14, Kurleigh Gittens Jr. had his best game as a Ticat, with seven catches for 94 yards and two TDs.

  • Reggie Stubblefield leads the team with 79 defensive plays.

EDM (10-3) at TOR (7-6)

  • Week 11: TOR 12 – EDM 42

  • Edmonton last won five straight in 2017 and it hasn’t swept the teams’ season series since 2019.

  • Cody Fajardo is 6-7 against Toronto. He will make his 100th start with a record of 59-39-1. He is 219 passing yards shy of his second 4,000-yard+ season.

  • Last week, Joshua Cephus had his first 100-yard+ game (119)

  • In his second game of the season, Joe Robustelli had five receptions for 68 yards and two TDs.

  • Tyrell Ford leads the league with six interceptions.

  • Noah Taylor has at least one sack in his last four games, including a pair last week.

  • Toronto has won the teams’ previous three matchups at BMO Field, where they are 3-0 this season.

  • Chad Kelly is 2-1 against Edmonton. He is coming off his fourth 400-passing yard+ game of the season.

  • David Ungerer needs 149 receiving yards for his first 1,000-yard season; he had a career-high 175 last week.

  • In his first 13 games in the CFL, Tyler Kahmann has four 100+ yard games and seven games with five-or-more receptions.

OTT (0-12) at CGY (5-8)

  • Ottawa swept the season series last year

  • McLeod Bethel-Thompson (30-38) will make his first start of the season. He is a career 4-5 versus the Stampeders.

  • Lucas Cormier has made five-or-more tackles in his past six games.

  • King Ambers had his first multiple-interception game last week.

  • Calgary is 2-7 in games decided in the final three minutes and 0-4 in games decided by four points-or-less.

  • Vernon Adams is 6-2 in his career against Ottawa. With 25 TDs, he is six shy of equaling his career-best.

  • Jalen Philpot (797) needs 34 receiving yards for a new career-high. He is on pace for 1,103.

  • Clarence Hicks has recorded a sack in each of his last five games, including two last week. He leads the league with 11.

  • René Paredes sits seventh all-time in scoring with 2,491 points.

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