Collaros Reinstated, Three Starters Swapped as Bombers Lock Depth Chart for Calgary
The Blue Bombers' most consequential roster move of the week wasn't a signing — it was a reinstatement. Zach Collaros was formally returned to the starting quarterback slot on Friday's official depth chart, ending a two-game absence caused by a head injury and capping a season in which he has now mi
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Collaros’s per-start pace is still elite; his missed games are the only red flag
In nine starts, Zach Collaros has thrown for 2,204 yards, 11 touchdowns, and six interceptions while completing 70.6 percent. That’s 244.9 yards per start, a pace of 4,408 yards and 22 touchdowns over 18 games. But he’s missed six regular-season games with a head injury, so Winnipeg’s real issue is durability, not decline.
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Zach Collaros Is Holding Winnipeg's QB Room Hostage — And He Knows It
Zach Collaros missed six games this season with a head injury. Six. He's 38 years old. And this week he told anyone within earshot he wants to play in 2027 — at 39 — which is the single most inconvenient sentence the Bombers' front office has heard in a decade. Here's what nobody's saying on the panel shows: Winnipeg has been quietly building the exit ramp for two years. Dru Brown is sitting there as the backup, and the succession plan was always "sooner, not later." But Collaros keeps winning just enough — 5-4 as a starter, 70.6 percent completion, and a 33-28 culling of Calgary Saturday at Princess Auto Stadium that may have been his final home start — to make benching him a full-blown locker-room civil war. Half that room bleeds blue and gold for Zach. The other half thinks the organiz