{"id":834419,"date":"2026-07-29T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834419\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:33:10","slug":"rookie-quarterback-kaidon-salter-to-start-for-lions-against-blue-bombers-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834419\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie quarterback Kaidon Salter to start for Lions against Blue Bombers | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785357190_152_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>B.C. Lions quarterback Kaidon Salter (19) looks downfield during second-half CFL pre-season football action against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Winnipeg on Friday, May 29, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/John Woods<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 29, 2026 | 11:16 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 Rookie Kaidon Salter will make his first CFL start Thursday as the B.C. Lions look to get their season back on track against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions (1-5) confirmed the quarterback change Wednesday after Salter replaced an ineffective Chase Brice late in last week\u2019s 26-12 loss to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Salter completed nine of 15 passes for 121 yards in relief and becomes B.C.\u2019s third starting quarterback this season following Nathan Rourke\u2019s shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg (4-3) will counter with Dru Brown, who makes his fourth straight start with Zach Collaros still sidelined by a neck injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. Lions quarterback Kaidon Salter (19) looks downfield during second-half CFL pre-season football action against the Winnipeg Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[879,49,48,521,522,2467,520,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-834419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-cfl","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834419","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=834419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}