{"id":939532,"date":"2026-10-20T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939532\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:42:11","slug":"toronto-argonauts-chad-kelly-knee-day-to-day-status-for-eastern-semifinal-tbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939532\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Argonauts\u2019 Chad Kelly (knee) day-to-day; status for Eastern semifinal TBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly avoided the worst-case scenario with his knee injury suffered Friday against the Ottawa Redblacks, reports TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kelly is considered day-to-day and his status for the Eastern Division semifinal on Oct. 31 cannot yet be determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kelly suffered the injury early in the first quarter after a scramble ended in a tackle by Redblacks defensive lineman Luigi Vilain. The Argos\u2019 pivot came up hobbling before taking a knee, but was able to walk off under his own power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nick Arbuckle came on to replace Kelly as the Argos eventually lost 40-39, giving the Redblacks their first win of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old Kelly was also a late scratch for the team\u2019s 24-17 loss to the BC Lions in Week 18 with a hand injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kelly has thrown for a career-high 5,067 yards with 33 touchdowns compared to 24 interceptions this season. He also has 183 rushing yards and three rushing TDs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Argos will wrap up their regular season against the Montreal Alouettes Friday night before playing in the Eastern semifinal the week after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly avoided the worst-case scenario with his knee injury suffered Friday against the Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939533,"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-939532","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\/939532","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=939532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}