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<\/p>\n\u201cI know I still can throw. There wasn\u2019t no nervousness or anything like that. We just had to execute the play, and that\u2019s what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The elite kick returner had earlier taken a missed Sergio Castillo 45-yard field-goal attempt 128 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter \u2013 the fourth-longest return of its kind in CFL history.<\/p>\n
The victory extended Toronto\u2019s win streak to four games (9-6), while Winnipeg dropped to 7-7 in front of a sold-out crowd at Princess Auto Stadium.<\/p>\n
Toronto head coach Mike Miller said special-teams co-ordinator Mickey Donovan came over to give him the heads-up about the Grant passing play and he gave it the green light.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive those guys credit, they did a great job executing it,\u201d Miller said. \u201cJG (Grant) and Dave and the blocking downfield.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a huge play we needed at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kelly upheld his reputation as a gunslinger when he threw touchdown passes of 56 yards to Tyler Kahmann and 84 yards to Damonte Coxie.<\/p>\n
He completed 22 of 31 pass attempts for 290 yards with the two TDs and two interceptions.<\/p>\n
The Bombers looked like they might hold on for the win when backup quarterback Bryce Perkins turned a third-down, one-yard push into a 76-yard touchdown run at 8:50 of the fourth quarter that put the home side up 28-24.<\/p>\n
Kelly then used a 38-yard pass to Coxie and a Winnipeg pass-interference penalty to march the Argonauts down the field, but settled for a 34-yard field goal from Hajrullahu to squeeze the score 28-27 with 2:38 remaining.<\/p>\n
Hajrullahu also made a 19-yard field goal, but missed a 52-yard try. He was good on three converts. Coxie led all receivers with seven catches for 149 yards.<\/p>\n
Dru Brown, making his fifth start of the season in place of injured Zach Collaros, was 16-of-28 passing for 193 yards with two touchdown passes and two picks. He also ran in a six-yard TD.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you could imagine everyone\u2019s pretty upset,\u201d Brown said. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t come out in the second half and execute well, in moments that we needed to stay on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from Brown\u2019s touchdown run, Tim White and Dorian Singer had TD catches for Winnipeg. Brady Oliveira rushed 18 times for 139 yards.<\/p>\n
Castillo made three converts, but missed the 45-yard attempt Grant took back and another from 55 yards.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have someone like JG back there, he\u2019s an amazing player,\u201d Castillo said of Grant. \u201cFor him to keep doing it at this age, at 32, he\u2019s an amazing guy back there.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, it should have just gone in. But onto the next one, you know? That\u2019s something, like I said, I\u2019ve been able to do pretty well in the past two or three years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The longest missed field-goal return in CFL history was 130 yards by Ken Hinton with the B.C. Lions in 1977. Two players had 129-yard TD returns, including Tristan Jackson with Saskatchewan in 2012 and Bomber Trey Vaval in July this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels great. I\u2019ve just got to keep climbing the ladder one play at a time,\u201d said Grant, who played for Winnipeg from 2019-23.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t do it alone. My guys, they made it happen, all the blocking they set up and all I had to do was run.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winnipeg led 14-7 after the first quarter, 21-14 at halftime and it was tied 21-21 heading into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n
Judy Owen, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI know I still can throw. There wasn\u2019t no nervousness or anything like that. We just had to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-910385","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\/910385","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=910385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}