{"id":823663,"date":"2026-07-24T18:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823663\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:54:27","slug":"argonauts-to-change-kicker-vs-lions-with-hajrullahu-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823663\/","title":{"rendered":"Argonauts to change kicker vs. Lions with Hajrullahu struggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Argonauts are making a big change to their roster after a heartbreaking loss last week.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian rookie kicker Brady Lidster will replace veteran Lirim Hajrullahu for Saturday&#8217;s road game against the B.C. Lions. Hajrullahu is now on the reserve roster for the Argos (2-4), who revealed their <a href=\"https:\/\/static.cfl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Week-8-%40-BC-2-PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">depth chart<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Hajrullahu, 36, missed a 31-yard field goal on the final play last week in a one-point loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He also missed a convert earlier in the game.<\/p>\n<p>A CFL all-star last year and a four-time division all-star, Hajrullahu is 12-for-18 on field goals this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Western University product had a short run with the Dallas Cowboys in 2021, making four of five field goals.<\/p>\n<p>Lidster was cut by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at training camp this year after being named a first-team all-Canadian with the Windsor Lancers last year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, newly signed defensive lineman Shawn Lemon will make his season debut for the Argos as a backup. Lemon, 37, has 103 career sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Argonauts are making a big change to their roster after a heartbreaking loss last week. Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-823663","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\/823663","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=823663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}