{"id":782929,"date":"2026-07-06T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:58:09","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-zach-collaros-exits-game-game-against-hamilton-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782929\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers\u2019 Zach Collaros exits game game against Hamilton with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winnipeg Blue Bombers star quarterback Zach Collaros left Sunday\u2019s Week 5 matchup against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with an upper-body injury and didn\u2019t return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The injury occurred at the beginning of the second quarter after Collaros was sacked by Ticats linebacker Reggie Stubblefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collaros threw for 41 yards with five completions and an interception when he left the game with his team trailing 7-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 37-year-old pivot has 944 passing yards after three games this season with five touchdowns and two interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rookie quarterback Taylor Elgersma entered the game in relief of Collaros, giving him his first taste of CFL action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collaros is in his sixth season in Winnipeg and helped the team to two Grey Cup titles and four Grey Cup appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Signed by the Toronto Argonauts in 2012, Collaros has 36,927 passing yards with 221 touchdowns and 119 interceptions split between the Argonauts, Tiger-Cats, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and Blue Bombers in his 14-season carer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Bombers entered Sunday\u2019s action with a 1-2 record, sitting in fourth in the West Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers star quarterback Zach Collaros left Sunday\u2019s Week 5 matchup against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[712,49,48,74988,22073,75056],"class_list":["post-782929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hamilton-tiger-cats-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-83579","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-110380"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782929","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=782929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}