{"id":791219,"date":"2026-07-09T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791219\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:57:09","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-zach-collaros-will-miss-fridays-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791219\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers: Zach Collaros will miss Friday\u2019s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WINNIPEG \u2014 Winnipeg Blue Bombers star quarterback Zach Collaros will miss Friday\u2019s game against the visiting Toronto Argonauts with a neck injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collaros sustained the injury in the second quarter of Winnipeg\u2019s 14-13 win at Hamilton on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was listed as questionable earlier this week and did not participate in the Blue Bombers\u2019 practice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dru Brown, who Winnipeg acquired in a trade with Ottawa last month, will start at quarterback Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canadian Taylor Elgersma, who led the Bombers to victory over the Ticats in relief of Collaros, will serve as backup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collaros has thrown for 985 yards, five touchdowns and three interceptions so far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 10, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 Winnipeg Blue Bombers star quarterback Zach Collaros will miss Friday\u2019s game against the visiting Toronto Argonauts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,82,22073],"class_list":["post-791219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791219","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=791219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}