{"id":866374,"date":"2026-08-21T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866374\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:16:10","slug":"canadian-qb-tre-ford-to-start-for-tiger-cats-against-argonauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866374\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian QB Tre Ford to start for Tiger-Cats against Argonauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Tre Ford will be Hamilton&#8217;s starting quarterback when the Tiger-Cats visit the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ford, of Niagara Falls, was listed as Hamilton&#8217;s starter on its depth chart released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ford came off the bench to replace injured starter Harrison Frost and rally Hamilton to a 26-19 home win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders last week.<\/p>\n<p>Ford completed 13 of 17 passes for 151 yards and a touchdown while adding 38 yards rushing.<\/p>\n<p>Ford is one of three starters Hamilton has used since veteran Bo Levi Mitchell suffered an ankle injury in a 14-3 home loss to Winnipeg on July 5, the other being Jake Dolegala.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton edged Toronto 24-23 at Hamilton Stadium on July 18, Ford&#8217;s first start as a Ticat. Ford completed 21 of 27 passes for 218 yards with a touchdown and an interception while rushing 10 times for 109 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton captured the win when Argos kicker Lirim Hajrullahu missed a 31-yard field goal on the game&#8217;s final play after earlier missing a convert.<\/p>\n<p>With a win, the Ticats (4-6) would clinch the season series with the Argos (4-5). The two teams will square off again Sept. 7 in the annual Labour Day contest at Hamilton Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Tre Ford will be Hamilton&#8217;s starting quarterback when the Tiger-Cats visit the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday. Ford,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-866374","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\/866374","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=866374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}