Collaros to six-game IL: Bombers hand offence — and cap relief — to Dru Brown
Winnipeg's quarterback room changed hands this week, and the transaction wire explains why the Week 17 line moved. Zach Collaros was placed on the six-game injured list with a head injury, ending his regular season and handing the offence to Dru Brown. The statistical case for panic is thinner than
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Collaros’s six-game IL stint is a cap-relief move, not just a head-injury absence.
Zach Collaros was moved to the six-game injured list after completing 70.6 percent for 2,204 yards, 11 touchdowns, and six interceptions. In the CFL, a six-game IL designation removes his salary from the cap while he’s out, giving Winnipeg room to add depth for the stretch run. Media treating it as only a QB injury misses the transactional upside.
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The Bombers Already Know Collaros Is Done — They Just Won't Say It
Zach Collaros is on the six-game injured list with a head injury, and here's what nobody in Winnipeg will say out loud: this is a soft exit. He's 37. He's completing 70.6 percent for 2,204 yards, 11 touchdowns and six picks — respectable numbers, not $500,000 numbers. And the Bombers have been quietly building the escape hatch since July, when Dru Brown walked into BMO Field and hung 339 yards on the Argos. I've talked to people in that building. When Brown went 2-2 in four starts, the offensive staff didn't treat it like a backup holding serve. They treated it like an audition. Mike O'Shea loves Collaros — genuinely, not for the cameras — and that loyalty is exactly why this is getting dragged out. Nobody wants to be the guy who benches a two-time Grey Cup MVP. But Friday night in Winni