With their season opener less than two weeks away, the Ottawa Redblacks aren’t ready to name a starting quarterback.<\/p>\n
There is a competition between incumbent Dru Brown and free-agent signing Jake Maier for the top job, new head coach Ryan Dinwiddie told reporters on Tuesday at training camp.<\/p>\n
“I wouldn’t say it’s anybody’s to lose. I think someone’s got to take the job,” Dinwiddie said. “That’s kind of my focus on it right now.”<\/p>\n
Dinwiddie said he expected Brown and Maier to both take first-half reps in the team’s second and final pre-season game on Friday against the visiting Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n
Maier was 10-for-14 for 155 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions in last week’s win over Montreal in the team’s first-pre-season game, while Brown did not play.<\/p>\n
Brown, 29, led the Redblacks to the playoffs in his first season as a starter in 2023, but missed half of last season due to injury and was 2-7 as a starter.<\/p>\n
Maier, 29, was the Calgary Stampeders’ starter for 2.5 seasons before signing as backup to Trevor Harris last season with the Grey Cup-winning Saskatchewan Roughriders. He started two games last year, going 1-1.<\/p>\n
The Redblacks open their season June 6 against the visiting Edmonton Elks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With their season opener less than two weeks away, the Ottawa Redblacks aren’t ready to name a starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-695813","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\/695813","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=695813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}