Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly was forced out of Saturday\u2019s Eastern Final loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the fourth quarter with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n
Argos head coach Mike Miller told reporters after the game he received no indication from the team\u2019s medical staff that Kelly could have returned.<\/p>\n
Nick Arbuckle replaced Kelly under centre midway through the fourth quarter as the Bombers stormed back to take the lead in the final minute and prevail over the Argos, ending their season.<\/p>\n
Kelly was hurt on a fumble in the third quarter when he pulled his arm back to throw and had the ball knocked loose. Winnipeg\u2019s David Reese scooped up the loose ball and took it back for a touchdown as the Blue Bombers made it a one-score game.<\/p>\n
Kelly initially stayed in the game but was seen shaking out his throwing arm several times and eventually came out midway through the fourth quarter. He appeared frustrated as he emerged from the blue medical tent and did not re-enter the game.<\/p>\n
The Argos led 22-17 at the time of Kelly\u2019s removal. He was 18-of-30 for 193 yards and a touchdown prior to departing. <\/p>\n
The injury came after Kelly reached a record-breaking five-year contract extension with Toronto that will pay him over $1 million annually.<\/p>\n
The Blue Bombers (9-9) will take on the CFL-best Montreal Alouettes (14-4) in the Eastern Final next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly was forced out of Saturday\u2019s Eastern Final loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954445,"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-954444","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\/954444","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=954444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}