{"id":849609,"date":"2026-08-07T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849609\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:48:08","slug":"nathan-rourke-to-return-as-b-c-lions-host-hamilton-tiger-cats-saturday-on-tsn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849609\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Rourke to return as B.C. Lions host Hamilton Tiger-Cats Saturday on TSN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Quarterback Nathan Rourke is set to return Saturday as the BC Lions host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rourke has missed the Lions\u2019 past two games with a shoulder injury suffered against the Edmonton Elks on July 17. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lions have gone 1-1 without their star pivot, remaining last in the West Division with a 2-5 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/live\">Watch Saturday\u2019s game LIVE on TSN, TSN.ca and the TSN App at 7pm ET\/4pm PT.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old has thrown for 1,399 passing yards this season with five touchdown passes and four interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was the CFL\u2019s reigning Most Outstanding Player last season and threw for 5,290 passing yards last season with 31 touchdowns and 16 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is also a two-time winner of the CFL Most Outstanding Canadian award, taking home the trophy in 2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Victoria, B.C., native is in his fifth CFL season and has 12,577 passing yards with 68 touchdowns and 44 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rourke missed the 2023 CFL season after he attempted to make the jump to the NFL, but returned to the league midway through the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Nathan Rourke is set to return Saturday as the BC Lions host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Rourke has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,87800,49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-849609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-bc-lions-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-93775","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\/849609","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=849609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}