Toronto remains atop the East Division, two points ahead of the second-place Montreal Alouettes (4-6), who host the Ottawa Redblacks (2-8) on Friday night. The 34-year-old Californian has completed 232-of-342 passes (67.8 per cent) this season for 2,764 yards with 13 TDs and eight interceptions. When you’re casual, you become a casualty.”īethel-Thompson earned a Grey Cup ring with Toronto in 2017 as Ray’s backup. “If you look back on that, you become casual. “Those names are unbelievable, they’re just legends, so I’m not really worried about it right now. “That (surpassing Flutie) is probably something I’ll look back on after my career is done,” said Bethel-Thompson. Also ahead of Bethel-Thompson are Condredge Holloway (16,619) and Damon Allen (13,974), also both Hall of Famers. Flutie only spent two seasons with the Argos (1996-97), earning CFL outstanding player awards both seasons en route to leading the franchise to consecutive Grey Cups before joining the NFL’s Buffalo Bills in 1998.īethel-Thompson has some work to do to catch career passing leader Ricky Ray (20,205), who’ll be inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame next month. That moved him past Flutie (11,225) into fourth in club history. Bethel-Thompson, in his fifth CFL season - all with Toronto - has amassed 11,294 career passing yards.
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