Bombers' QB Room on Alert: Collaros Head Injury Clouds West Race
Winnipeg’s Week 16 practice report is a season-tracker red flag. Zach Collaros (head injury) was a non-participant Monday after leaving the Banjo Bowl following an interception to Seyi Oladipo Jr.; Brady Oliveira (ankle) and Nic Demski (ankle) also sat. Collaros is 5-4 as a starter with a 70.6 compl
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Collaros head injury flips Winnipeg to a .500 QB with 5/5 TD-INT
Collaros is 5-4 as a starter and 70.6 percent, but he left the Banjo Bowl after an interception to Seyi Oladipo Jr. and is now a non-participant with a head injury. Dru Brown is 2-2 with 1,148 yards, five touchdowns, and five interceptions in 2026—a sharp regression from his 14-TD, 2-INT backup stint in Winnipeg. With Brady Oliveira and Nic Demski also missing practice (ankles), the Bombers' contingency is not just a backup QB; it's a turnover-neutral passer behind a depleted skill group.
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The CFL Just Priced a Groin at Two Games
Week 15, B.C. against Montreal. Josh Hagerty struck Liam Talbot twice. Talbot — an Alouettes running back — needed emergency surgery on his groin. Hagerty got two games. Read that again. Two. And here's the part the league would love you to skim past: that's tied for the second-longest suspension for an on-field incident in CFL history. Not second-longest this season. Second-longest ever. So either Hagerty's act was historically egregious — which, yeah, emergency groin surgery — or the CFL's entire discipline scale is a rounding error. Then Week 16 hits, the Lions are on a bye, and the whole thing gets buried under power rankings and Chad Kelly highlights. No podium. No number anyone's repeating. Just two games and a shrug. My take, plainly: the CFL got this wrong, and the CFLPA should