{"id":818201,"date":"2026-07-22T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818201\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:22:11","slug":"gm-lions-qb-nathan-rourke-out-weeks-not-months-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818201\/","title":{"rendered":"GM: Lions QB Nathan Rourke out weeks, not months, with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1-4 B.C. Lions have been given a lifeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A poor start to the season, not helped by the World Cup\u2019s presence at BC Place forcing them out of their home for the early part of the campaign, looked to be on the verge of collapse after quarterback Nathan Rourke suffered an injury to his non-throwing shoulder in last week\u2019s 19-17 loss to the Edmonton Elks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, after Rourke was last seen on the Lions\u2019 sideline with his arm in a sling, the team has received good news on his status following an MRI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be weeks rather than months, and knowing Nate, it\u2019ll be sooner rather than later,\u201d general manager Ryan Rigmaiden told media Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2026\/07\/21\/b-c-lions-nathan-rourke-going-to-miss-weeks-rather-than-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to 3 Down Nation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t give you anything else in terms of weeks, but it\u2019s definitely going to be more weeks than months, and so we\u2019re excited about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rourke&#8217;s timeline, provided it remains optimistic, should help keep B.C. in the picture a year after it finished second in the West Division at 11-7. The Lions will play their first game in Vancouver this Saturday, and a further six from Week 10 onward.<\/p>\n<p>A slow start and a home slate in Kelowna have put them in a hole, but with Rourke\u2019s return looming in a matter of weeks, there will be hope in a late-season playoff surge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1-4 B.C. Lions have been given a lifeline.\u00a0 A poor start to the season, not helped by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-818201","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\/818201","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=818201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}