The Ottawa Redblacks are down their starting quarterback.<\/p>\n
Dru Brown exited the game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with an apparent head injury after taking a big hit from Ticats defensive back DaShaun Amos early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Amos blitzed off the right side and ran untouched into the backfield before jarring Brown’s helmet off. The quarterback walked off the field under his own power.<\/p>\n
Amos was called for grade 2 roughing the passer on the play, which carries a 25-yard penalty.<\/p>\n
A play can be deemed a grade 2 roughing the passer penalty if a “blow is delivered with the crown of the helmet to the head or neck area of the passer, despite having a clear view to contact, and there are no mitigating circumstances such as the QB’s helmet level changing prior to contact.”<\/p>\n
Before exiting the game, Brown was 6-for-8 passing for 110 yards and an interception. In three games this season, the 28-year-old quarterback has thrown for 1,012 yards and five touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Dustin Crum replaced Brown at QB for the Redblacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Redblacks are down their starting quarterback. Dru Brown exited the game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-11777","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\/11777","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=11777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}