The Saskatchewan Roughriders are celebrating their past with a link to the present.

The 2026 SaskTel Plaza of Honour inductees — Rob Bagg, Dan Clark and Paul McCallum — were in the lineup together for 13 games with the 2015 Roughriders.

For the first of those contests, the visiting team’s starting quarterback was none other than the Roughriders’ current No. 1 pivot, 2025 Grey Cup MVP Trevor Harris.

Harris, then of the Toronto Argonauts, played in Regina for the first time on July 5, 2015. That game also marked the beginning of McCallum’s concluding stint with the Green and White.

Bagg scored a touchdown in the Roughriders-Argonauts matchup, during which the 45-year-old McCallum went 4-for-4 on field-goal attempts. Clark was in Game 2 in his seven-season tenure as Saskatchewan’s unrivalled starting centre.

All three of them were spotlighted during a Zoom call with reporters on Monday, when the Plaza’s Class of 2026 was announced.

“To be able to go in with both of you, it definitely strikes a note in my heart,” Clark said.

The Regina-born Clark starred for the Thom Trojans and Regina Thunder before becoming a full-time Roughrider in 2012.

A member of the 2013 Grey Cup championship team, he remained with the Roughriders through the 2022 season. He was the All-CFL centre in 2019.

Bagg also played on the 2013 Grey Cup team during an 11-season pro football career, spent entirely with Saskatchewan. He is sixth in franchise history in catches (364) and 10th in receiving yards (4,706).

“It was just an incredible experience,” Bagg said from Kingston, Ont. “I couldn’t be more honoured and humbled to join the great company in the Plaza of Honour. To go in with Paul and Danny just makes it all that much sweeter.”

Bagg, Clark and McCallum are to be formally inducted during a halftime ceremony on Oct. 17, when the Roughriders will play host to the Montreal Alouettes.

By the time the aforementioned trio enters the Riders’ shrine, Bagg and McCallum will both be second-time Hall of Famers.

On May 1, Bagg will enter the Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame. McCallum was enshrined in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2022.

McCallum played in 340 games over a remarkable 24 CFL seasons. With 3,145 points, he is second only to B.C. Lions great Lui Passaglia (3,991) on the CFL’s All-Time scoring list.

With the Roughriders, McCallum amassed 1,615 points — 51 per cent of his career total.

Only Dave Ridgway has produced more points (2,374) for Saskatchewan.

McCallum debuted as a Roughrider in place of an injured Ridgway late in the 1994 season. With two games remaining in the 1995 campaign, McCallum succeeded Robokicker and proceeded to emulate him by becoming a Canadian Football Hall of Famer.

Ridgway’s 60-yard field goal, recorded in 1987, was the longest in CFL history until McCallum booted a 63-yarder for Saskatchewan against Edmonton on Sept. 29, 2001 at Taylor Field. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Sergio Castillo tied McCallum’s distance mark last season.

McCallum spent a decade with the Roughriders before signing with B.C. as a free agent in 2006. He retired 10 years later, but not before spending one final season in Saskatchewan.

Now he is part of only the second group of three teammates to comprise a Plaza of Honour induction class. Tom Campana, Ted Provost and Lawrie Skolrood were enshrined in 2008.

There is another commonality between this year’s inductees. All three of them overcame the odds to make the CFL.

Not one of them was drafted.

McCallum (formerly of the Surrey Rams) and Clark both advanced to the pro ranks from junior football. Bagg, a standout at Queen’s University, enjoyed a pro career spanning more than a decade despite being an undrafted player.

“I think it’s understated when it comes to effort being a talent,” Bagg said. “I think it’s a tangible thing that some people bring to the table just naturally.”

McCallum’s natural talent for kicking a soccer ball facilitated a lengthy CFL career.

“Time flies by so fast,” the Vancouver-based CFL legend marvelled. “When things like this come upon me, I start to reminisce and think about all the things that happened over my career with the Riders.

“It’s just an amazing journey that I’ve been on and I’m just happy that I get to share it with these guys.”