VANCOUVER \u2014 The BC Lions will be without their running back when they take on the Calgary Stampeders on Friday night.<\/p>\n
James Butler has been listed as out on the team\u2019s official depth chart issued on Thursday<\/a>, and has been placed on the one-game injured list.<\/p>\n Butler was dealing with a thigh issue this week and was a limited participant in practice.<\/a><\/p>\n RELATED \u00a0<\/p>\n Heading into Week 16, Butler sits on top of the league in rushing yards (989), just 11 yards away from his third 1,000-yard campaign of his career. He\u2019s scored 10 touchdowns on the ground, one behind Dustin Crum (11) for the most in the CFL. The 30-year-old has also hauled in 31 passes for 275 yards and a major score.<\/p>\n Zander Horvath will start in place of Butler this week. The six-foot-three, 230-pound running back has seen action in five games this season, tallying one carry for four yards.<\/p>\n The BC Lions head to Calgary to meet the Stampeders on Friday Night Football. Kickoff is slated for 9:30 p.m. ET and can be watched on TSN in Canada and on CFL+ in the U.S. and internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The BC Lions will be without their running back when they take on the Calgary Stampeders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-161509","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\/161509","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=161509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00bb 3 keys to victory for BC, Calgary in Week 16<\/a>
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