{"id":36346,"date":"2025-07-31T07:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36346\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:28:16","slug":"blue-bombers-rule-out-qb-zach-collaros-for-week-9-vs-argonauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36346\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers rule out QB Zach Collaros for Week 9 vs. Argonauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will have to end a three-game losing streak without veteran quarterback Zach Collaros. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Mike O&#8217;Shea <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TaylorAllen31\/status\/1950638639664578697\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TaylorAllen31\/status\/1950638639664578697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told reporters after practice<\/a> Wednesday that Collaros will not play on Friday against the Toronto Argonauts because of a neck injury. <\/p>\n<p>Collaros had started against the Argos in Week 8 but exited at halftime after completing just five of 10 passes for 79 yards and throwing two interceptions, with Chris Streveler taking over in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Collaros suffered a neck injury in Week 7 against the Calgary Stampeders following a significant hit that knocked him to the turf. O&#8217;Shea told reporters that he does not expect Collaros to be sidelined long-term.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has 1,031 passing yards, seven touchdowns and eight interceptions through five games this season. <\/p>\n<p>With Collaros officially ruled out, Streveler would be in line to start against the Argonauts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will have to end a three-game losing streak without veteran quarterback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-36346","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\/36346","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=36346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}