{"id":786684,"date":"2026-07-07T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:23:08","slug":"vernon-adams-jr-tops-cfl-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786684\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernon Adams Jr. Tops CFL Players Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary Stampeders quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/vernon-jr-adams\/159680\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Adams Jr.<\/a> has been recognized with the top spot on the Canadian Football League\u2019s list of Week 5 Players of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>In last Thursday\u2019s Stampede Bowl against the Toronto Argonauts, Adams completed 20 of 25 pass attempts for 405 yards and six touchdowns. Adams added a fourth-quarter rushing score in the 58-36 victory at McMahon Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>With his performance, he became just the fifth player in league history to have a game of at least 400 passing yards, six passing touchdowns and zero interceptions. Adams\u2019 passing-touchdown total also tied a single-game franchise record.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An historic night for VA \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GMEFennPoQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GMEFennPoQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Calgary Stampeders (@calstampeders) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/calstampeders\/status\/2073139212984242665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back Stampede Bowl MVP also moved into 34th place on the CFL\u2019s all-time passing yards list and now sits at 21,564 yards in his career.<\/p>\n<p>The three weekly selections are made by a panel composed of representatives from the CFL\u2019s Football Operations, Player and Game Statistics and Content departments. This marks the first time this season for a Stampeders player to receive the league honour.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. has been recognized with the top spot on the Canadian Football League\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-786684","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\/786684","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=786684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}