Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell has been ruled out for the remainder of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe it is, I think I\u2019ve made that fairly clear five times,\u201d said Tiger-Cats head coach Scott Milanovich on whether Mitchell\u2019s season was over.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a nine-month injury. He\u2019s doing great; I think he\u2019s probably ahead of schedule. I wouldn\u2019t say no [to Mitchell playing in the playoffs], but realistically, we wouldn\u2019t want to put him out there and danger him. He\u2019s moving around a little bit now, but it\u2019s not on my radar at this point right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The back-to-back Most Outstanding Player runner-up was stretchered off early in the third quarter of Hamilton\u2019s Week 5 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on July 5 after suffering a serious ankle injury.<\/p>\n
Blue Bombers\u2019 defensive tackle Jake Ceresna came down hard on Mitchell\u2019s left ankle, which was stabilized by medical personnel before Mitchell left the field in an ambulance. The 36-year-old was placed on the six-game injured list but not ruled out for the season at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cBo Levi Mitchell underwent successful ankle surgery this morning and is in good spirits. We expect him to make a full recovery,\u201d said Tiger-Cats president of football operations Orlondo Steinauer in a statement following the injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis focus now turns to the rehabilitation process, which he will approach with the same drive he has shown throughout his career. The support for Bo has been tremendous all around, especially from our incredible fanbase. We look forward to seeing Bo back on the field in Black and Gold.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mitchell also took to social media at the time to thank his teammates, Ticats fans and his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will do everything I can to be back on that field with y\u2019all ASAP,\u201d Mitchell wrote. \u201cWe have something special in Hamilton, and this doesn\u2019t change that. I love you all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before going down, the gunslinger completed 78.2 per cent of his passes for 1,107 yards, nine touchdowns, and one interception.<\/p>\n
In 2023 \u2014 Mitchell\u2019s first season with Hamilton \u2014 he required surgery to repair a lower-leg fracture and made just six starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell has been ruled out for the remainder of the 2026 season. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,74988,82],"class_list":["post-895783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-hamilton-tiger-cats-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-83579","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895783","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=895783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}