{"id":825374,"date":"2026-07-25T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/825374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:35:11","slug":"vernon-adams-jr-sets-new-benchmark-for-consecutive-touchdown-passes-without-an-interception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/825374\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernon Adams Jr. Sets New Benchmark For Consecutive Touchdown Passes Without An Interception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/vernon-jr-adams\/159680\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Adams Jr.<\/a> has set a new benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>With a touchdown pass to Tyreik McAllister in the second quarter of Saturday\u2019s Week 8 matchup against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the Calgary Stampeders quarterback extended his season-opening streak to 18 touchdown passes without an interception.<\/p>\n<p>Adams surpassed Ricky Ray and Darian Durant, who both opened the 2013 season with 17 touchdown passes before throwing their first interception.<\/p>\n<p>According to extensive research by CFL stats, the touchdown also extended Adams\u2019 overall streak to 21 consecutive touchdown passes without an interception and established a new all-time high, passing his head coach, Dave Dickenson, who had 20 in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>McAllister also scored a rushing touchdown in the first quarter and a missed field goal return touchdown in the second frame.<\/p>\n<p>Adams Jr. finished his night completing 18 of 27 passes for 319 yards to go along with three touchdowns and no interceptions in his team\u2019s win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vernon Adams Jr. has set a new benchmark. With a touchdown pass to Tyreik McAllister in the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-825374","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\/825374","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=825374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}