Éric Deslauriers

Who is Éric Deslauriers?

Éric Deslauriers is a professional Canadian football slotback for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. He played college football at Eastern Michigan University.

Deslauriers was born in Gatineau, Quebec, and attended Champlain College in Sherbrooke in the 2000–01 season. Eric became the starting quarterback for the Cougar team upon his arrival. In 10 games that season as the Cougars QB, Eric had 56 rushing attempts for 232 yards and 3 rushing Touchdowns as well as completing 77 of 177 passes for 1347 yards and 10 passing Touchdowns. He was named a first team all-star as QB that season.

In 2002, Deslauriers received a full football scholarship from the NCAA's Division 1 Mid-American Conference's Eastern Michigan University. After playing the quarterback position all of his life, the Eagles' coaching staff decided to tap into Deslauriers' natural athletic abilities, and switched him to the wide receiver position because of a surplus of quarterbacks on the team.

After sitting out the 2002 season as a redshirt, Deslauriers finally arrived as a force to be reckoned with in the 2004 season. Deslauriers had 84 receptions that year for 1,257 yards and an EMU-record 13 TD receptions, all while being named the team MVP that year.