{"id":164827,"date":"2025-09-23T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164827\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:39:10","slug":"samuel-emilus-kian-schaffer-baker-full-participants-in-practice-with-saskatchewan-roughriders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164827\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Emilus, Kian Schaffer-Baker full participants in practice with Saskatchewan Roughriders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Emilus.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Photo courtesy: Saskatchewan Roughriders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"487\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Emilus-696x487.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Samuel Emilus\"\/><\/a>Photo courtesy: Saskatchewan Roughriders<\/p>\n<p>Canadian receivers Samuel Emilus and Kian Schaffer-Baker were full participants in practice with the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Tuesday, according to the team\u2019s official report.<\/p>\n<p>Emilus has missed the team\u2019s last six games due to a knee injury and has played only four matchups all season, recording 20 catches for 361 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot, 200-pound native of Montreal, Que. was originally a first-round pick in the 2022 CFL Draft out of Louisiana Tech University. He has made 187 catches for 2,687 yards and 13 touchdowns over 54 career regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>Schaffer-Baker has missed Saskatchewan\u2019s last 12 regular-season games due to a foot injury he sustained against the Ottawa Redblacks in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-four, 195-pound target originally joined the Roughriders as a fourth-round pick in the 2020 CFL Draft out of the University of Guelph. He has since recorded 205 receptions for 2,688 yards and 14 touchdowns over 53 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian defensive backs Tevaughn Campbell (head), Jaxon Ford (knee), and Nelson Lokombo (ankle) were all non-participants on Tuesday, as was starting defensive lineman Shane Ray (shoulder). Canadian running back Thomas Betrand-Hudon (leg), Canadian offensive lineman Phillipe Gagnon (arm), and American defensive back Marcus Sayles (leg) were all full participants.<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders (10-3) will visit the Edmonton Elks (5-9) on Saturday, September 27 with kickoff slated for 7:00 p.m. EDT. The Roughriders were on a bye this past week, while <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2025\/09\/21\/edmonton-elks-blow-late-lead-again-lose-to-ticats-on-walk-off-field-goal-five-other-thoughts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Elks suffered a heartbreaking walk-off loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast in Edmonton calls for a high of 18 degrees with a mix of sun and cloud. The game will be broadcast on TSN in Canada and CFL+ internationally. Radio listeners can tune-in on 620 CKRM in Regina and 880 CHED in Edmonton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: Saskatchewan Roughriders Canadian receivers Samuel Emilus and Kian Schaffer-Baker were full participants in practice with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-164827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}