Bombers' Ground Game vs. Argos' Stacked Box: Oliveira Key in Collaros' Absence
With Zach Collaros ruled out for the East Semi-Final due to a rib injury suffered on Nathan Cherry’s late hit, Winnipeg’s offense shifts decisively to Brady Oliveira. The 29-year-old led the CFL with 1,493 rushing yards on 237 carries and added 42 catches for 348 yards — a dual-threat workload that
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Oliveira’s playoff touchdown rate collapses despite elite volume
Brady Oliveira ran 237 times for 1,493 yards and 7 touchdowns in the 2026 regular season — one score every 33.9 carries. In nine career playoff games, he has 114 carries for 681 yards but only 2 touchdowns — one every 57.0 carries — while still averaging 89.3 yards from scrimmage per game. The Bombers’ red-zone and goal-line designs, not Oliveira’s workload, are the playoff pressure point media miss.
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Chad Kelly's $1M Deal Is Already Splitting the Argos' Locker Room
Everybody's clapping about Chad Kelly's five-year extension north of a million per, announced right as Toronto heads into the East Semi against Winnipeg. Here's what nobody's saying out loud: that contract got done *before* Kelly won a single playoff game as a starter, and there are veterans in that building doing math on their own deals right now. I've had two people connected to that roster tell me the number landed like a thud in the room — not because guys hate Kelly, but because a quarterback eating that much cap means somebody's taking a haircut in February, and everybody knows whose name gets circled. And here's the irony: the guy Toronto should be worried about isn't Kelly. It's Dru Brown, who gets the start Saturday because Nathan Cherry put his helmet into Zach Collaros' ribs in