{"id":33667,"date":"2025-07-30T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33667\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:27:08","slug":"stampeders-qb-vernon-adams-jr-questionable-to-play-vs-redblacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33667\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders QB Vernon Adams Jr. questionable to play vs. Redblacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The status of the Calgary Stampeders&#8217; star quarterback for Thursday&#8217;s game against the Ottawa Redblacks remains up in the air. <\/p>\n<p>Vernon Adams Jr. was listed as questionable on the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/07\/27\/cfl-injury-reports-week-9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">injury report<\/a> Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Calgary pivot left late in a Week 8 loss to the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the third quarter, Adams scrambled out of the pocket and ran for a seven-yard gain before he was hit hard by Montreal linebacker Tyrice Beverette. Although he got to his feet and walked to the sidelines, he was assessed for a head injury and didn\u2019t return to the game. <\/p>\n<p>The former B.C. Lions quarterback is off to a great start in his first season in Calgary, with 1,913 yards and nine touchdowns. His excellent play has the Stampeders off to a surprising 5-2 start and second place in the West Division. <\/p>\n<p>If Adams can&#8217;t go, P.J. Walker is expected to start in his place.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever is under centre for the Stamps will be without one of the team&#8217;s top targets as Damien Alford was ruled out by the team Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Alford, Calgary&#8217;s No. 1 pick in the 2025 CFL Draft, went down early in Week 8 with a hamstring injury and did not return to the game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The status of the Calgary Stampeders&#8217; star quarterback for Thursday&#8217;s game against the Ottawa Redblacks remains up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-33667","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\/33667","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=33667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}