{"id":830856,"date":"2026-07-28T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:42:10","slug":"lions-blue-bombers-both-could-be-missing-starting-qbs-for-thursday-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830856\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions, Blue Bombers both could be missing starting QBs for Thursday game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the B.C. Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers are going to play without previous winners of the CFL&#8217;s most outstanding player award in the Week 9 opener on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Lions rookie quarterback Kaidon Salter took the majority of first-team reps at the team&#8217;s first practice of the week Monday, per JC Abbott of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheJCAbbott\/status\/2081852000833290273\" rel=\"nofollow\">3DownNation<\/a>, and appears poised to make his first career start Thursday in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Lions star QB Nathan Rourke, the 2025 CFL MOP, was placed on the six-game injured list last week with a shoulder injury to his non-throwing arm. He was listed as limited on Monday&#8217;s injury report. <\/p>\n<p>Chase Brice started last week against the Argos, but was ineffective and replaced by Salter late in a 26-12 loss. Salter, who played his final college season for Colorado last season, completed nine of 15 passes for 121 yards against the Argos.<\/p>\n<p>Lions head coach Buck Pierce chose not to confirm his starter after Monday&#8217;s practice, Abbott reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions (1-5) are in desperate need of a win to stay afloat in the West Division.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Blue Bombers star QB Zach Collaros (neck) was not dressed for Monday&#8217;s practice, Derek Taylor of 680 CJOB Winnipeg <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DTonOB\/status\/2081786287930130799\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That would put Dru Brown in position to make his fourth consecutive start in place of the two-time MOP for the Blue Bombers (4-3).<\/p>\n<p>Brown is 2-1, but is coming off a four-interception outing in a 52-30 loss to the Calgary Stampeders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like the B.C. Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers are going to play without previous winners of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-830856","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\/830856","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=830856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}