Dohnte Meyers knows the quickest road to the house.
He has caught two touchdown passes in each of the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ past two road games — most recently, Saturday’s 33-27 victory over the B.C. Lions.
“Travelling and also going out here and getting team wins and being explosive out there on the field, it’s a lot of fun,” Meyers said from Vancouver after Saskatchewan improved its record to 5-1.
“We put in a lot of work during the week. We didn’t get the win last week, but to go out here and get the win this week is everything you want.”
Meyers’ first multi-touchdown game in the CFL helped the Roughriders win 39-32 against the Toronto Argonauts on June 20 at BMO Field.
Following back-to-back home games — including a 24-10 loss to the Calgary Stampeders on July 12 — Saskatchewan assumed a 33-11 lead over the Lions en route to leaving B.C. with a 3-0 road slate.
Meyers caught seven passes for 132 yards. The latter figure topped the career high he had set in Toronto, where he caught four passes for 125 yards.
In both cases, the second-year Roughriders receiver was able to blow the top off the defence.
He caught touchdown passes of 70 and 32 yards from Trevor Harris on June 20 before reaching the end zone from 50 and 30 yards away on Saturday.
The 50-, 32- and 30-yard TDs all resulted from deep throws. On the 70-yarder, Meyers caught a perfectly placed pass 10 yards beyond the line of scrimmage and won a 60-yard sprint to the end zone.
“He’s just one of those guys where you feel good about him being out there — especially when he’s on the perimeter, because he’s very, very fast,” Harris said.
“He can get behind defences and he’s very shifty. As you saw against Toronto, you get him the ball in the open field and he can really, really go.
“I think he’s one of those guys who a couple of years down the line, if he’s not back down south in the NFL, has a chance to be a premier receiver up here.”
Meyers is already in the conversation about premier receivers due to his pass-catching prowess on the road.
He has joined an exclusive fraternity, consisting of three Roughriders legends, by catching multiple TD passes in consecutive road games.
Joey Walters accomplished that feat in three straight road games in 1981. Hugh Campbell (in 1964 and 1966) and Jeff Fairholm (1989) are now joined by Meyers with two in a row. (See APPENDIX #1.)
As well, Meyers has given Saskatchewan a receiver with 100-plus yards in back-to-back road games for the 21st time in franchise history.
Walters exceeded 100 four consecutive times in 1981. Mac Speedie (1953) and Ray Purdin (1962) recorded 100-plus receiving yards in three successive road games. (See APPENDIX #2.)
Meyers will have an opportunity to tie Speedie and Purdin when the Roughriders visit the Montreal Alouettes on Aug. 2.
Before that, Saskatchewan will meet the Edmonton Elks on Friday (7 p.m., Mosaic Stadium).
HUGE HALVES FOR HARRIS
Harris has thrown for a franchise-record 561 yards in adjacent halves over the past two games.
He put up 327 yards in the second half against Calgary and 234 over the opening 30 minutes in Vancouver.
The previous high was 546 by Kent Austin over the first and second halves against Calgary on Oct. 23, 1993 at Taylor Field.
Austin is third on the list at 543 (216 in the second half at Hamilton, Aug. 25, 1990; 327 in the first half versus Winnipeg, Sept. 2, 1990).
Kerry Joseph is fourth at 523 (343 in the second half versus Toronto, July 22, 2006; 180 in the first half versus Calgary, July 29, 2006).
Also of note: Harris’s average yards per attempt (13.17) on Friday was 20th-highest in Roughriders history.
His average yards per completion (17.14) was the best by a Roughrider since Cody Fajardo (17.92) against the visiting Argonauts on July 1, 2019.
One more: Harris has the fifth-most regulation-time passing yards (1,626) among Roughriders quarterbacks after their first five starts of a season. (See APPENDIX #3.)
MEYERS MOTORS
The 50-yarder pass to Meyers was the Roughriders’ longest scoring pass on their first possession since Nov. 11, 2007.
At Taylor Field, Saskatchewan opened the 2007 Western Semi-Final with a 62-yard TD pass from Joseph to D.J. Flick against Calgary.
Saturday’s 50-yarder was Saskatchewan’s longest TD pass on its opening series in a regular-season game since July 13, 2001, when Marvin Graves found Roell Preston for a 78-yarder in Edmonton.
APPENDIX #1: MOST CONSECUTIVE ROAD GAMES WITH MULTIPLE TOUCHDOWN RECEPTIONS
3 — Joey Walters (2 at Ottawa, Aug. 15, 1981; 3 at Edmonton, Aug. 30, 1981; 2 at Winnipeg, Sept. 12, 1981)
2 — Hugh Campbell (3 at Edmonton, Aug. 28, 1964; 2 at Winnipeg, Sept. 12, 1964)
2 — Hugh Campbell (2 at B.C., Aug. 28, 1966; 2 at Winnipeg, Sept. 11, 1966)
2 — Jeff Fairholm (2 at Hamilton, Aug. 18, 1989; 2 at Edmonton, Aug. 30, 1989)
2 — Dohnte Meyers (2 at Toronto, June 20, 2025; 2 at B.C., July 19, 2025)
APPENDIX #2: MOST CONSECUTIVE ROAD GAMES WITH 100-PLUS RECEIVING YARDS
4 — Joey Walters, 1981
3 — Mac Speedie, 1953
3 — Ray Purdin, 1962
2 — Jack Russell, 1951
2 — Jon McWilliams, 1956
2 — Hugh Campbell, 1964
2 — Hugh Campbell, 1965
2 — Chris DeFrance, 1983
2 — Ray Elgaard, 1987
2 — Jeff Fairholm, 1989
2 — Ray Elgaard, 1991
2 — Ray Elgaard, 1992
2 — Larry Thompson, 1994
2 — Don Narcisse, 1996
2 — Curtis Mayfield, 1997
2 — Don Narcisse, 1998
2 — Weston Dressler, 2008
2 — Weston Dressler, 2010
2 — Cary Koch, 2010
2 — Naaman Roosevelt, 2016
2 — Dohnte Meyers, 2025
APPENDIX #3: MOST PASSING YARDS AFTER FIRST FIVE STARTS OF A SEASON
1,728 — Kent Austin, 1991
1,722 — Kent Austin, 1993
1,709 — Joe Paopao, 1985
1,652 — Kent Austin, 1992
1,626 — Trevor Harris, 2025
1,576 — Kevin Glenn, 2017
1,538 — Kevin Glenn, 2015
1,522 — Kent Austin, 1990
1,520 — Darian Durant, 2010
1,443 — Kerry Joseph, 2006
1,417 — Trevor Harris, 2024
NOTE: Totals exclude passing yards in overtime.