Collaros Sidelined, Brown Takes Reps as Bombers Add Three to Practice Roster
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers' Monday injury report reads like a depth-chart emergency: Zach Collaros (head), Brady Oliveira (ankle), and Nic Demski (ankle) all listed as non-participants, with Dru Brown running first-team reps. Collaros, 38, exited the Banjo Bowl after throwing a late third-quarter int
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Dru Brown’s interception rate has tripled since he stopped being a backup.
With Zach Collaros (head) non-participant Monday, Brown led practice. Brown has thrown 5 INT in 1,148 yards (1 per 229.6) in 2026 after throwing just 2 INT in 1,484 yards (1 per 742) across his first three CFL seasons as Winnipeg’s backup. That 3.2x spike is the hidden risk if Collaros misses Week 17.
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O'Shea's "If He Can Go, He's Zach" Is the Most Damning Quote in Winnipeg
Zach Collaros is 38, coming off a head-and-neck injury he suffered chasing down Seyi Oladipo Jr. in the Banjo Bowl, and Mike O'Shea's Monday answer was "if he can go, he's Zach." Read that again. That's not a coach backing his guy — that's a coach admitting the depth chart is being decided by a medical report, not by who gives Winnipeg the better chance to win. Meanwhile Dru Brown ran the first-team offence Monday. The guy they traded for in June, the guy who went 12-13-1 in Ottawa, is 2-2 with a 70.2 completion percentage. That's not a project. That's a starting quarterback the Bombers are borrowing. Here's what nobody in that building will say out loud: the window is closing and the loyalty is costing them. Collaros is 5-4. Brown is 2-2. One of them is 38 with a neck that just got fold