With starting quarterback Nathan Rourke sidelined for the foreseeable future with an injury, it appears the BC Lions will add quarterback Tyrie Adams to their roster, according to Farhan Lalji. <\/p>\n
Adams, 29, spent the four previous seasons with the Ottawa Redblacks, throwing for 405 yards with four touchdowns and five interceptions over eight games in 2025. <\/p>\n
The native of St. Petersburg, Florida did not sign with a CFL team during the off-season, instead inking a deal with the Salina Liberty of the National Arena League.<\/p>\n
Adams, who played his collegiate football at Western Carolina, has 23 games of CFL experience, all with the Redblacks from 2022 to 2025. <\/p>\n
Rourke suffered an injury to his non-throwing shoulder on the second play of Friday\u2019s loss to the Edmonton Elks when he was sacked by defensive lineman Noah Taylor.<\/p>\n
Lalji reported the injury is expected to keep Rourke sidelined for \u201ca few weeks.\u201d <\/p>\n
Backup Chase Brice replaced Rourke against the Elks, throwing for 226 yards with one touchdown and four interceptions as the Lions fell to 1-4 on the season. <\/p>\n
Brice, 28, is in his fourth season with the Lions. <\/p>\n
Quarterback Kaidon Salter, 23, is also on the Lions\u2019 roster, but hasn\u2019t thrown a pass this season. <\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Rourke has thrown 1,403 passing yards alongside five touchdown and four interceptions over five games this season, his fifth in BC. <\/p>\n
Rourke, the CFL\u2019s reigning Most Outstanding Player, threw for 5,290 passing yards last season with 31 touchdowns and 16 interceptions.<\/p>\n
He is also a two-time winner of the CFL Most Outstanding Canadian award, taking home the trophy in 2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With starting quarterback Nathan Rourke sidelined for the foreseeable future with an injury, it appears the BC Lions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,87800,49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-815265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-bc-lions-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-93775","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\/815265","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=815265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}