There\u2019ll be no quarterback controversy in Mike Miller\u2019s first season as the Toronto Argonauts head coach.<\/p>\n
Miller, named Toronto\u2019s 46th head coach last month, said Monday he expects veteran Chad Kelly under centre when the Argos open training camp in May. Kelly, 31, missed the entire 2025 campaign recovering from a serious leg injury suffered late in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no reason to believe that (Kelly) will not be ready to go for training camp and be 100 per cent,\u201d Miller said during a video call ahead of the CFL\u2019s winter meetings in Calgary. \u201cWe\u2019re all excited about moving forward, and we expect Chad to be healthy and ready to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, he\u2019s our starter going into 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Kelly, the CFL\u2019s 2023 outstanding player, sidelined last year, veteran Nick Arbuckle made a career-high 15 starts for Toronto with Miller as quarterback coach. The \u201924 Grey Cup MVP boasted a stellar 72.4 per cent completion average with 4,370 passing yards, 26 TDs, 15 interceptions and eight 300-yard games, but Toronto (5-13) finished third in the East Division to miss the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Head coach Ryan Dinwiddie left after five seasons to become the Ottawa Redblacks head coach\/GM. Miller was promoted to the Argos head job\/offensive co-ordinator after four seasons as quarterback coach.<\/p>\n
Kelly enjoyed a banner \u201923 season. He was the league\u2019s outstanding player after passing for 4,123 yards with 23 TDs and 12 interceptions while rushing 40 times for 248 yards and eight TDs in going 15-1 as the starter.<\/p>\n
But Kelly has appeared in just nine regular-season games the last two years. He missed half of the \u201924 campaign due to suspension before suffering a serious leg fracture versus Montreal in the East final.<\/p>\n
Kelly has always gushed regarding the impact Miller has had on his CFL career. And with Miller and Kelly having worked together before, the head coach expects a seamless transition when the two formally return to the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk all the time,\u201d Miller said. \u201cHe\u2019s constantly texting me about potential plays and concepts and things he\u2019s seeing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand how hard it was for him, believe me, it killed him not to be out there trying to contribute, trying to help his teammates win, but he did all he could. The only thing we didn\u2019t have was his availability during gameday, but he was very present in the postgame, at halftime, on the practice field when we did our installs and practice review. I don\u2019t expect any differences when it comes to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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New Toronto Argonauts head coach Mike Miller speaks to media in Toronto on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sammy Kogan New Toronto Argonauts head coach Mike Miller speaks to media in Toronto on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sammy Kogan (Sammy Kogan) <\/p>\n
What will be different is where Toronto will call home to open the \u201926 season. With the FIFA World Cup staging games at BMO Field, the Argos will play home games at Hamilton Stadium, Mosaic Stadium in Regina and Winnipeg\u2019s Princess Auto Stadium versus the host teams.<\/p>\n
Toronto won\u2019t play its first game at BMO Field until Aug. 8 versus the Calgary Stampeders. The Argos annually hold training camp at the University of Guelph and will call the venue home early during the regular season.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, that is the plan,\u201d GM Mike Clemons said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly what that\u2019s going to look like, but it seems as if they\u2019re going to do their best to give us the things that we need in order to get ourselves ready for each week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are different things they\u2019re putting together, but it\u2019s not done yet at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller said he\u2019s comfortable with the idea of calling Guelph home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t foresee any real problems,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got an excellent facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe field is nice, the weight room facility is really good, the training facilities that we have for our trainers — it\u2019s really good, so we\u2019re excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clemons has been Toronto\u2019s GM since Oct. 8, 2019, when he replaced Jim Popp. The affable 60-year-old Florida native has served as an Argos player, head coach and executive since 1989 and said he took on the general manager\u2019s role for a second time nearly seven years ago with the understanding it would last until the club was back on solid footing.<\/p>\n
Toronto won Grey Cups in 2022 and \u201924 but comes off a less-than-stellar 2025 season. However, it\u2019s unclear how much longer Clemons will remain as Argos GM.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the team, I love the game and all of that, but I also love my family and the (Pinball) Foundation and those things,\u201d Clemons said. \u201cAt some point, I\u2019ve requested sort of a concept of a transition, and (MLSE president Keith Pelley) has promised me a look at what that would be. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019ll stay in this seat, I guess, as long as, you know, well, it\u2019s indefinite, let\u2019s say that. Being with the organization in a broader sense is what the idea is, so that doesn\u2019t mean I won\u2019t be with the team, it would probably mean that my time would be reduced with the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n
Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019ll be no quarterback controversy in Mike Miller\u2019s first season as the Toronto Argonauts head coach. Miller, named…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,890,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-405486","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-lifestyle","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405486","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=405486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}