{"id":933094,"date":"2026-10-14T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933094\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:58:13","slug":"chad-kelly-takes-first-team-reps-at-practice-with-toronto-argonauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933094\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Kelly takes first-team reps at practice with Toronto Argonauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chad Kelly saw the majority of first-team reps in practice Wednesday with the Toronto Argonauts as he works to return from a hand injury that kept him out of the team\u2019s last game two weeks ago, per TSN\u2019s Matthew Scianitti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kelly was a late scratch for the team\u2019s 24-17 loss to the BC Lions in Week 18. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/cfl\/article\/argonauts-qb-kelly-out-with-hand-injury-for-game-against-lions\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/cfl\/article\/argonauts-qb-kelly-out-with-hand-injury-for-game-against-lions\/\">TSN\u2019s Dave Naylor reported<\/a> that the team had expected Kelly to be ready for the game, but had to pivot late in the week and go with backup Nick Arbuckle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Argonauts are set to take on the winless Ottawa Redblacks in their penultimate game of the season on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tsn.ca\/live\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tsn.ca\/live\">You can watch the Argonauts and Redblacks go head to head LIVE on TSN1\/5, TSN.ca and the TSN App, with coverage starting on Friday at 7p.m. ET \/ 4p.m. PT.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kelly has thrown for six touchdowns and 667 yards in two games against the Redblacks this season &#8211; a 44-24 victory in Ottawa in Week 3, and a 26-23 victory in Toronto in Week 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old pivot is third in the CFL with 5,067 yards passing through 15 games on the season &#8211; already a career high &#8211; with 33 touchdowns and 24 interceptions. He\u2019s thrown for multiple touchdowns in six consecutive contests, and has exceeded 400 yards passing in four separate games this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scianitti also reported that with DB Tavarus McFadden on the six-game injured list, rookie Nic Toomer is likely to make his CFL debut in the secondary for the Argonauts on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chad Kelly saw the majority of first-team reps in practice Wednesday with the Toronto Argonauts as he works&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,82,79102],"class_list":["post-933094","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-sports","tag-toronto-argonauts-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-122345"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933094","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=933094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}