Collaros's Six-Game Stash and Brown's Audition: Winnipeg's QB Room Is Quietly Fracturing
Zach Collaros's placement on the six-game injured list — confirmed the same week Dru Brown made his fifth start of 2026 — is the loudest signal yet that Winnipeg's quarterback hierarchy is being renegotiated in real time. The six-game designation is not purely medical; in the CFL it doubles as a sal
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Collaros' Six-Game IL Is a QB Leverage Bomb
Zach Collaros was moved to the six-game injured list before Dru Brown's fifth start, and Brown responded with two passing touchdowns plus a six-yard rushing score in a 30-28 loss to Toronto. The six-game IL is the CFL's cap-relief lever, so Winnipeg is temporarily saving against the cap while Brown—29 and auditioning—builds a market. When Collaros' six games expire, his cap hit snaps back, forcing a locker-room and financial reconciliation: pay Brown or risk losing him.
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Saskatchewan Gave Away a Grey Cup MVP and Nobody Got Fired
Let's rewind to 2022, because that's where the bodies are buried. Cody Fajardo was gutting through a torn MCL, Craig Dickenson kept yanking him for Mason Fine, and by the end of a 6-12 season the Riders' building had quietly decided Fajardo was the problem. Jeremy O'Day let him hit free agency in February 2023. No trade. No compensation. Nothing. Just a guy who'd dragged them to two straight West Finals, shown the door. Fourteen months later, Fajardo is hoisting the Grey Cup at Tim Hortons Field — 290 passing yards, three touchdowns, Grey Cup MVP — against Winnipeg. In Montreal. For Jason Maas, who actually built an offense around what Fajardo does well instead of demanding he become a pocket statue. Here's what nobody in Regina says out loud: they never replaced him. Trevor Harris, Maso