Montreal Alouettes acquire rights to Laurent Duvernay-Tardif in trade with Calgary
MONTREAL – The Montreal Alouettes acquired the rights to offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif from the Calgary Stampeders on Thursday in change for 2 conditional picks.
If Duvernay-Tardif indicators a take care of the Alouettes or every other CFL staff, Montreal would ship its subsequent second spherical choose to Calgary. The Stampeders would then have the choice to commerce the following first spherical choose to the Alouettes, if it seems to be greater than Calgary’s.
Ought to the Alouettes not have a primary spherical choose the next season, this selection would apply the next yr.
“Laurent is a soccer icon in Montreal and Quebec,” Alouettes GM Danny Maciocia mentioned in a launch. “We want him the perfect success along with his soccer profession shifting ahead, and are glad realizing that if he does play in Canada, he’ll accomplish that in a metropolis and a stadium that he is aware of very properly.”
The 31-year-old Quebecer introduced in June that he could be placing his NFL profession on maintain after being accepted right into a residency program at a Montreal-area hospital.
Duvernay-Tardif performed 54 video games in 5 NFL seasons, serving to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs win the Tremendous Bowl within the 2019 season.
He selected to not play within the NFL in 2020 and to deal with his profession in drugs, within the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, to be able to assist those that wanted it most. This determination earned him Sports activities Illustrated’s annual Sportsman of the Yr honours.
He has been an unrestricted NFL free agent since March after ending final season with the Jets. He mentioned he’s not retiring from soccer, simply taking good care of medical necessities wanted to turn into a doctor. The guard plans to reassess each his soccer curiosity in addition to that of NFL golf equipment in September.
A sixth-round choose (2 hundredth general) within the 2014 NFL Draft, Duvernay-Tardif performed in eight video games with the New York Jets final season.
The Stampeders claimed him within the third spherical (nineteenth general) within the 2014 CFL Draft.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed July 14, 2022.
