announced<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n“We’ll see what Bryson’s got,” Redblacks head coach Ryan Dinwiddie said. “I feel like he’s ready for this stage. Early in his career, a young kid \u2014 there’s going to be some ups and downs obviously. We’ve got to shrink the package a little bit and do things he’s comfortable with.”<\/p>\n
Barnes has seen only mop-up duty and short-yardage work for the Redblacks this season. He has completed 10 of 13 passes for 110 yards with one interception and has rushed for nine touchdowns.<\/p>\n
The Redblacks have started veteran quarterbacks Jake Maier and McLeod Bethel-Thompson in their first 16 games, all losses.<\/p>\n
No CFL team has ever finished 0-18.<\/p>\n
The Argos (9-7) have clinched second place in the East and will host a division semifinal on Oct. 31 at BMO Field.<\/p>\n
Barnes beat out former Heisman Trophy runner-up Max Duggan for the Redblacks’ third-string QB job.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-one Barnes played college football at Utah and Utah State.<\/p>\n
He was named a second-team all-Mountain West team member last year at Utah State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Redblacks are ready to see what they have in Bryson Barnes. The rookie quarterback will make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-933198","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\/933198","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=933198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}