Some big names were practicing for the Toronto Argonauts Thursday as they held their first session\u00a0in preparation for their Labour Day Weekend matchup against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.<\/p>\n
All-CFL members in receiver\u00a0Makai Polk and offensive lineman Ryan Hunter were taking first team reps, while quarterback Chad Kelly also partially worked in with the first team, according to TSN’s Matthew Scianitti.<\/p>\n
A familiar face in Polk re-joined the Argonauts on Tuesday and is\u00a0already getting starting reps just\u00a0two days after signing back in Toronto.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-3, 197-pound target was recently waived by\u00a0the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons\u00a0and returns after\u00a0hauling in 61 passes for 1,024 yards and five touchdowns, leading\u00a0the Argos in all three major receiving categories last season.<\/p>\n
The California native was named to the 2024 East All-CFL team\u00a0and was Toronto’s nominee for Most Outstanding Rookie.<\/p>\n
Hunter\u00a0logged his first full practice after a six-game injured list stint after\u00a0he was struck by a car while on a scooter over a month ago. The two-time All-CFL selection was named the league’s Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman last season and made five starts in 2025 before suffering a\u00a0shoulder injury in the accident.<\/p>\n
Kelly also took partial first team reps, though current starter and 2024 Grey Cup MVP Nick Arbuckle took the majority.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old is still recovering\u00a0from\u00a0his injury he suffered\u00a0in the third quarter of last year’s East Final, when Montreal Alouettes defensive end Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund landed on his right leg. Kelly was taken off on a stretcher and revealed later that night on social media he suffered fractures to his tibia and fibula, forcing him to undergo surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kelly\u00a0started eight regular season\u00a0games for Toronto a season ago, after missing the first nine due to a suspension for violating the league’s gender-based violence policy. The Buffalo, New York native completed 67.8 percent of his passes for 2,451 yards, 10 touchdowns, and eight interceptions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some big names were practicing for the Toronto Argonauts Thursday as they held their first session\u00a0in preparation for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-104103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}