Bombers Sign Five to Practice Roster as Collaros Lands on Six-Game IL
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers added five American players to their practice roster Sunday — a positionally balanced haul of two offensive linemen, two defensive backs and one receiver. The size is the story up front: Tunde Fatukasi (six-foot-five, 310 pounds) made 33 starts over 44 games at Bowling Gree
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Collaros' six-game IL is a cap and evaluation window
Zach Collaros was moved to the six-game injured list this week, and Dru Brown made his fifth start in a 30-28 loss to Toronto. Under CFL cap rules, a six-game IL stint removes his salary from the cap, so Winnipeg can bank savings while evaluating Brown, who threw two early TDs and ran for a six-yard score. That's a rare mid-season cap-and-succession hedge.
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Rick Campbell Picked Rourke Over VA Jr. — and BC Paid for It
August 2024. Vernon Adams Jr. is leading the CFL in passing yards, BC's sitting first in the West, and then he tweaks his knee. Nathan Rourke comes home from Atlanta, and Rick Campbell doesn't ease him in — he hands him the starting job. VA rehabs, gets healthy, and watches from the sideline. The Lions stumble down the stretch, lose the West Semi to Saskatchewan, and by January 2025, VA Jr. is traded to Calgary for a fourth-round pick. A fourth. For a guy who was an MOP frontrunner four months earlier. Here's the part that stayed in the building: VA was told the job was his when healthy. It wasn't. He wasn't mad at Rourke — he was furious at Campbell. Teammates noticed. When the trade dropped, more than one Lion texted him congratulations, not condolences. Campbell bet the franchise on t