{"id":829774,"date":"2026-07-27T19:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829774\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:11:28","slug":"quarterback-zach-collaros-neck-throws-ahead-of-winnipeg-blue-bombers-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829774\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterback Zach Collaros (neck) throws ahead of Winnipeg Blue Bombers practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zach Collaros is on the road back to action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The veteran quarterback wasn\u2019t in uniform at Winnipeg Blue Bombers practice on Monday, but he was throwing ahead of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collaros, 37, was placed on the six-game injured list last week. He picked up a neck injury during the team\u2019s Week 5 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The Cincinnati product took a hard sack from Reggie Stubblefield in the 14-13 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Steubenville, OH, Collaros is in his 14th CFL season and sixth with the Bombers. Prior to his injury, Collaros had thrown for 985 yards on 74-for-103 passing with five touchdowns and three interceptions. A two-time CFL Most Outstanding Player, Collaros has won three Grey Cups including a pair with the Bombers in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With Collaros out, Dru Brown has started in his stead. The Oklahoma State product is in his second stint with the team. Brown led the team to a 30-21 victory over the Toronto Argonauts, throwing for 339 yards in the win, on July 10 before a 36-34 overtime win over his former team, the Ottawa Redblacks, on July 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Bombers lost for the first time under Brown this past Friday, 52-30 to the Calgary Stampeders. Brown, 29, struggled mightily in the defeat, throwing for four interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Bombers (4-3) sit third in the West. They return to action on Thursday with a visit from the BC Lions (1-5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Collaros is on the road back to action. The veteran quarterback wasn\u2019t in uniform at Winnipeg Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[712,49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-829774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829774","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=829774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}