{"id":575396,"date":"2026-04-01T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575396\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:34:08","slug":"is-nathan-rourke-leaving-bc-lions-why-cfl-news-reason-arent-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575396\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Nathan Rourke leaving BC Lions? Why CFL news, reason aren&#8217;t what you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Rourke has been a special CFL player for the BC Lions.<\/p>\n<p>The superstar Canadian quarterback has won the league&#8217;s Most Outstanding Player honor and also holds the single-season record for completion percentage.<\/p>\n<p>American football fans may remember his name from his time with the Ohio Bobcats in the MAC.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, fans are wondering what&#8217;s going on with Rourke.<\/p>\n<p>A social media post on Wednesday has put his future in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/news\/eagles-andy-dalton-trade-means-1-thing-tanner-mckee\/86802294aabd34a193319845\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">E<\/a><a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/news\/eagles-new-signing-flew-himself-plane-pilot-philadelphia\/c242c3d975a77268d6aa376b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">agles&#8217; new signing flew himself as a pilot to Philadelphia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is Nathan Rourke leaving BC Lions?<\/p>\n<p>No, it does not actually appear Rourke is leaving the CFL.<\/p>\n<p>The official team account posted this on social media, suggesting Rourke is leaving to prepare for flag football at the 2028 Olympics:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thank you, Nathan Rourke.<\/p>\n<p>From day one, you\u2019ve represented the BC Lions and the Canadian Football League with pride, passion, and a love for the game in this country. Now, you\u2019re chasing a new dream.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you nothing but the best as you step away to focus on pursuing the\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NN8DIaXViJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NN8DIaXViJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BC LIONS (@BCLions) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCLions\/status\/2039342125364691055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The key is the date: April 1. It&#8217;s April Fools Day.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s a tiny sliver of a chance that&#8217;s real, it wouldn&#8217;t make any sense as a career move for Rourke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once you add up the news with the day, it becomes a lot clearer that this was just an attempt at being funny. Whether it landed or not is a different question.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Rourke has been a special CFL player for the BC Lions. The superstar Canadian quarterback has won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-575396","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575396","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=575396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}