{"id":846873,"date":"2026-08-05T10:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:40:35","slug":"lions-qb-nathan-rourke-practises-with-first-team-ahead-of-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846873\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions QB Nathan Rourke practises with first team ahead of Week 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The B.C. Lions are on the verge of receiving a massive boost.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Rourke\u2019s injury, there were fears it could be a long-term issue. But, an MRI brought good news, and B.C. general manager Ryan Rigmaiden told media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/cfl\/article\/gm-lions-qb-nathan-rourke-out-weeks-not-months-with-shoulder-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">it would be weeks, not months<\/a> \u2014 a prognosis that is about to be proven correct.<\/p>\n<p>In Rourke&#8217;s absence, the Lions have gone 1-1. At 2-5, they are far from out of the West Division picture, just two games back of both the Stampeders and Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>In five games this season, Rourke has thrown for 1,403 yards with five touchdowns to four interceptions, completing 71.3 per cent of his passes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>B.C. will host the 3-5 Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Week 10, after it defeated Winnipeg 35-19 in Week 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The B.C. Lions are on the verge of receiving a massive boost. In the wake of Rourke\u2019s injury,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-846873","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\/846873","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=846873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}