CFL suspends Bombers QB Collaros for failing to respond to off-season drug testing

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 07, 2025 2:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

The CFL has suspended Winnipeg Blue Bombers backmost Zach Collaros 1 crippled for failing to respond to an off-season drug-testing request.

The league announced Wednesday officials with the Canadian Centre for Ethics successful Sport (CCES) doubly tried to scope Collaros by telephone and different clip via email implicit a two-hour period. It added Collaros, 36, failed to respond wrong 24 hours, which usually would effect successful a two-game suspension.

The league said aft a reappraisal it shortened the suspension to 1 game, citing "extenuating circumstances."

The CFL besides stated Collaros has ne'er tested affirmative for a performance-enhancing cause nether the associated CFL/CFL Players' Association cause policy.

The CFL and CFLPA person besides agreed to heighten interaction protocols for off-season investigating of players.

"Zach Collaros is 1 of the astir respected leaders successful our locker country and crossed the CFL," Bombers president Wade Miller said successful a statement. "He's a nonrecreational successful each consciousness — committed, accountable, and a existent illustration of what it means to beryllium a Blue Bomber.

"There was nary intent for wrongdoing by Zach — conscionable a missed measurement successful the process. Both the CFL and CFLPA person since clarified and improved their connection protocols to assistance guarantee this doesn't hap to different players successful the CFL."

Under presumption of the cause policy, suspended players can't play successful regular-season oregon playoff games. It is up to their nine whether they enactment successful squad activities, specified arsenic grooming camp, accumulation games, practices oregon meetings.

"Zach volition miss our archetypal regular-season crippled but volition proceed to afloat enactment successful grooming campy and pre-season games," Miller said. "As an organization, we're besides reviewing and strengthening however we enactment players successful navigating off-season requirements.

"Zach remains an incredibly valued person connected and disconnected the field, and we look guardant to having him backmost nether centre June 21 (Week 2)."

Winnipeg kicks disconnected its 2025 play hosting B.C. connected June 12 and past visits the Lions the pursuing week.