{"id":857554,"date":"2026-08-14T07:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857554\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:44:29","slug":"calgary-stampeders-vernon-adams-jr-exits-vs-bc-lions-with-apparent-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857554\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Stampeders\u2019 Vernon Adams Jr. exits vs. BC Lions with apparent injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Calgary Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. exited Thursday\u2019s loss to the BC Lions in the fourth quarter with an apparent injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Adams hit his head against the turf after being tackled on a six-yard rush and was escorted off the field by Calgary\u2019s training staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He would be taken to the medical tent after getting back to the sideline, and would not return to the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Adams completed 13-of-23 passing attempts for 148 yards and a touchdown before departing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Backup quarterback Josh Love would enter into the game, completing six passes for 58 yards and an interception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Calgary fell to 5-5 on the year with the loss on Thursday, and are on bye next week before taking on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Week 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. exited Thursday\u2019s loss to the BC Lions in the fourth quarter with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,84068,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-857554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary-stampeders-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-112939","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\/857554","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=857554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}