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\u2014 CFL (@CFL) September 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Critical now for Mitchell & Co. is to keep the foot jammed down on the gas pedal, what with this Saturday\u2019s game in Edmonton against the Elks an opportunity to lock up a playoff spot.<\/p>\n The offensive production we saw against the Ticats \u2014 514 yards net offence including 390 through the air \u2014 was a welcome sight for a unit that has shown flashes this season but also coughed and sputtered at times.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was good,\u201d began offensive coordinator Jason Hogan after practice on Tuesday. \u201cI still think there\u2019s some stuff we need to clean up, a couple of mistakes and stuff to get better at every week, but overall, pretty good, pretty satisfying.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026 We definitely want to build off it. Going into the bye week after that win was the momentum we needed. So, being able to come out here first practice and start where we left off, which is not necessarily easy to do, and I thought we did that yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n That goes double for Mitchell, whose struggles in training camp bled into the regular season before he made his Winnipeg debut in August. He has just 18 catches for 193 yards, but his work in the Hamilton win was his best as a Blue Bomber in what is becoming a crowded receiver room.<\/p>\n \u201cI see us keep on stacking on days,\u201d said Mitchell when asked for a thought on what\u2019s potentially ahead for the club in the push to the playoffs. \u201d I feel like I\u2019m not only getting more comfortable and my confidence continuing to rise as a player, I see myself being a huge part of a Grey Cup run.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a thing which I very much got introduced to \u2014 FIFO \u2014 and I know that part and me making plays, it\u2019s all going to work itself out where we can continue to get wins and get past teams we have not been able to.\u201d<\/p>\n Mitchell credited Collaros in particular for helping him work through his early season adjustments to a new club and in the important development of a QB-receiver chemistry.<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely feel like it\u2019s way further than what it\u2019s been,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel after you meet somebody new you\u2019ve got to get to know them and what they like and for both of us we\u2019ve both made strides. And with him being a leader and a veteran, he\u2019s helped me being able to come out of my shell as a leader as well.<\/p>\n \u201cZach, he was a big part of why I stayed focussed. More so than anything we talk about personal things and life-things and anything that\u2019s helped me improve my focus, he\u2019s always been there. That\u2019s his job and his job as a leader and he\u2019s been great at it.\u201d<\/p>\n Mitchell said he learned his patience from his mother \u2014 \u201cif you just take a second to think about things you might not make the wrong decision but you might make a better one\u201d \u2014 and that\u2019s helped him work through a topsy-turvy 2025 which has so far seen him dumped by Edmonton for financial reasons before being scooped up by the Blue Bombers and then the struggle to just crack the lineup here.<\/p>\n As if this weekend\u2019s game against his old club might get his blood boiling, he said:<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say \u2018special feelings\u2019 but always going back and playing somewhere you did play could be a little nostalgic, in a sense. But other than that, I\u2019m just completely focussed on being around the Blue Bombers and my brothers and making sure we get the win. All the other stuff, I can focus on after\u2026 hugging people and missing people.<\/p>\n \u201cAny player \u2014 for sure, for sure \u2014 is always wanting to prove to a team that they played for that they\u2019re still a guy or a good player, especially with the way it ended. I don\u2019t have any hard feelings for the way it ended but going in I don\u2019t want to have a good game \u2014 it\u2019s not towards anybody, it\u2019s just more so that I want to do well for the Bombers and for some of the people in Edmonton that supported me that will come (to the game).\u201d<\/p>\n QUOTABLE: Head coach Mike O\u2019Shea in his media conference on Tuesday when asked about Mitchell:<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s good. He\u2019s always been good. It was just a matter of him knowing what we\u2019re doing and getting comfortable in the offence.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve always known he\u2019s a good player. I\u2019m happy for him personally to have success and feel good to have your work pay off for you. But you could see some of the other things he does \u2014 he\u2019s hard to bring down, he\u2019s got a strong lower body; he\u2019s got some greasiness to him, some shift that makes him hard to tackle. We\u2019ve seen him get whacked and pop back up like nothing\u2019s happened. He\u2019s got good hands\u2026 all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n OUCH REPORT: OL Pat Neufeld was back at his right guard spot on Tuesday after missing Monday\u2019s session. C Chris Kolankowski and WR Nic Demski were absent for personal reasons while CB Demerio Houston is expected back on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Injury Report: October 7, 2025#ForTheW<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/3pUeVnhZYD<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Winnipeg Blue Bombers (@Wpg_BlueBombers) October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n ICYMI: Great chat today with OL Tui Elli today on the latest episode of The Huddle. 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