{"id":26761,"date":"2025-07-27T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26761\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:30:07","slug":"blue-bombers-zach-collaros-exits-vs-argonauts-with-apparent-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26761\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers&#8217; Zach Collaros exits vs. Argonauts with apparent injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Collaros appears to be banged up yet again.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Blue Bombers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers\/status\/1949270354784051549\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> at halftime on Saturday the starting quarterback would not return to their game against the Toronto Argonauts<\/p>\n<p>Collaros left Winnipeg&#8217;s last game in the second quarter with what the club later called a neck injury after taking a big hit, but was deemed fit to play Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Collaros struggled mightily in the first half against the Argos, completing five of 10 passes for 79 yards and two interceptions. It was unclear whether the QB suffered a new injury or not, but he returned to the Blue Bombers sideline in street clothes.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has battled turnovers this season, similar to his woes from the 2024 campaign when he tossed 17 touchdowns and 15 picks. Entering Saturday&#8217;s contest, the two-time CFL most outstanding player has thrown for 952 yards, seven TDs and six interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also averaging just 8.4 yards per pass \u2013 his lowest total since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Streveler took the reigns under centre for Winnipeg in the second half against Toronto. In five games this season, the three-year NFL veteran has thrown for 482 yards, four TDs and three picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Collaros appears to be banged up yet again. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announced at halftime on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-26761","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\/26761","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=26761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}