VANCOUVER \u2013 Nathan Rourke has made Canadian Football League history.<\/p>\n
Heading into Week 16\u2019s contest against the Calgary Stampeders, Rourke needed 38 yards to set the single-season record for most passing yards by a Canadian player. He passed the milestone in the first quarter with a 33-yard completion to Keon Hatcher Sr.<\/p>\n
The Lions pivot passed Russ Jackson for the top spot, who threw for 3,641 yards in 1969.<\/p>\n
RELATED Heading into the Week 16 contest, Rourke had completed 247 of his 360 passes for 3,604 yards, 20 touchdowns and nine interceptions.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old also called his own number 40 times, rushing for 381 yards and four touchdowns on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2013 Nathan Rourke has made Canadian Football League history. Heading into Week 16\u2019s contest against the Calgary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-156175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156175","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=156175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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