{"id":216938,"date":"2025-10-16T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216938\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:16:08","slug":"a-j-ouellette-keesean-johnson-dohnte-meyers-among-starters-resting-for-roughriders-vs-blue-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216938\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J. Ouellette, KeeSean Johnson, Dohnte Meyers among starters resting for Roughriders vs. Blue Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A handful of Saskatchewan Roughriders starters will be on the sidelines for the team\u2019s Week 20 matchup against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The laundry list of names includes the pair of 1,000-yard wideouts KeeSean Johnson and Dohnte Meyers, 1,000-yard rusher A.J. Ouellette, and numerous defensive starters including defensive linemen Micah Johnson and Shane Ray, and defensive backs Rolan Milligan Jr. and Marcus Sayles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Notably, quarterback Trevor Harris is available for the contest, but was a limited participant all week while not taking any first-team reps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That means Jake Maier is in line to get his second start of the season, after completing 13-of-23 passes for 170 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions back in Week 4 while Harris was out with a head injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Across three seasons as a full-time starter with the Stamps, the 28-year-old Maier completed 68.7 per cent of his passes for 10,474 yards, 55 touchdowns, and 36 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With first place in the West Division locked up and a home playoff game clinched, Saskatchewan will be taking the rest and recover approach into this one, even if it means boosting their biggest rivals\u2019 playoff hopes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A win against the Roughriders would virtually clinch a playoff spot for the Blue Bombers, though they would need an Edmonton Elks loss and\/or a Calgary Stampeders win to lock it in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A handful of Saskatchewan Roughriders starters will be on the sidelines for the team\u2019s Week 20 matchup against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,77833,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-216938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canadian-football-league","12":"tag-canadianfootballleague","13":"tag-cfl","14":"tag-saskatchewan-roughriders-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-106752","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216938","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=216938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}