{"id":823763,"date":"2026-07-24T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823763\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:54:08","slug":"nathan-rourke-out-chase-brice-to-start-vs-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823763\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Rourke out; Chase Brice to start vs. Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER \u2014 The BC Lions will be without quarterback Nathan Rourke<\/a> in Week 8.<\/p>\n

Rourke was listed as out on the team\u2019s injury report on Thursday<\/a> and was placed on the reserve roster on the Lions\u2019 official depth chart<\/a> released on Friday as he deals with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

The Canadian signal-caller left last weekend\u2019s game against Edmonton after the first drive of the game and did not return.<\/a><\/p>\n

Chase Brice<\/a> was listed as the starter for their game on Saturday against the Toronto Argonauts. Brice filled in for the injured Rourke against Edmonton in Week 7 and completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, one touchdown and four interceptions in the 19-17 loss.<\/p>\n

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In five games this season, Rourke has thrown for 1,403 yards, five touchdowns and four interceptions, while adding 71 yards and a touchdown on seven carries on the ground.<\/p>\n

BC sits at 1-4 as they host Toronto at Save-on-Foods Field at BC Place on Saturday night. Kickoff is slated for 7:00 p.m. ET and can be watched on TSN\/RDS in Canada, on CBSSN in the U.S., and on CFL+ internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The BC Lions will be without quarterback Nathan Rourke in Week 8. Rourke was listed as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-823763","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\/823763","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=823763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}