{"id":823259,"date":"2026-07-24T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823259\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:53:09","slug":"cody-fajardo-has-career-night-in-win-over-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823259\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Fajardo has career night in win over Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REGINA \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/cody-fajardo\/160140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Cody Fajardo\">Cody Fajardo<\/a> was the maestro that orchestrated the Edmonton Elks\u2019 sixth win of the season on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Elks signal-caller had a career night against his former team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, posting numbers that he had never produced before in a handful of categories.<\/p>\n<p>Fajardo threw for 510 yards and four passing touchdowns, and had a 158.3 passer rating. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CFLStats\/status\/2080516658162987131?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">All three were career-highs.<\/a> He also connected on 25 of 32 pass attempts, good for 78.1 per cent completion.<\/p>\n<p>Fajardo <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CFLStats\/status\/2080519569861435876?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">became only the fourth player in CFL <\/a>history with 500+ passing yards, four+ touchdown passes, and zero interceptions in the same game. He joins Danny Barrett (1993), Jason Maas (2004), and Tobin Rote (1960) in accomplishing the feat.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/07\/24\/vincent-blanchards-57-yard-field-goal-wins-it-at-the-buzzer-for-edmonton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elks, Blanchard walk it off at Mosaic Stadium<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/games\/6617\/saskatchewan-roughriders-vs-edmonton-elks\/#\/preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/games\/6616\/ottawa-redblacks-vs-winnipeg-blue%20bombers\/#\/preview\" aria-label=\"Winnipeg, Ottawa by the numbers - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\">Edmonton, Saskatchewan by the numbers<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/07\/24\/3-stats-that-defined-edmontons-week-8-victory-over-saskatchewan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">3 stats that defined Edmonton\u2019s Week 8 victory over Saskatchewan<\/a><br role=\"presentation\"\/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Sign up and watch CFL games on CFL+ in the U.S. and Internationally - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/plus\" data-uw-original->Sign up and watch CFL games on CFL+ in the U.S. and Internationally<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also led the game-winning drive that included two third-down conversions to keep the chains moving. Both connections on third down were to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/tj-luther\/167730\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"TJ Luther\">TJ Luther<\/a>, Fajardo\u2019s favourite target on the night, first for a 16-yard pickup on third-and-one, followed by a 23-yard reception on third-and-10 a few plays later. Luther finished the game hauling in 10 of 12 passes thrown his way for 157 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Blanchard booted the winning, walk-off field goal from 57 yards out to extend the Elks\u2019 winning streak to three and improve their overall record to 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The opening game of Week 8 was one of the most entertaining, back-and-forth games of the season so far and fans won\u2019t have to wait long to see these two clubs battle once again. The second half of the home-and-home between the Riders and Elks gets underway on Saturday, August 1 at 7:00 p.m. ET at Commonwealth Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REGINA \u2014 Cody Fajardo was the maestro that orchestrated the Edmonton Elks\u2019 sixth win of the season on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-823259","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\/823259","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=823259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}