{"id":217022,"date":"2025-10-16T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217022\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:08:16","slug":"hogan-brissett-chasing-1000-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217022\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogan: Brissett Chasing 1,000 Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Toronto Argonauts season finale in Calgary means nothing in the standings to them, a quartet of Canadian players will be chasing significant personal milestones.<\/p>\n

Lirim Hajrullahu will set the Argos single season record with just one field goal on Saturday, while three consecutive FGs will also set a club mark. Kevin Mital needs eight catches to become the fifth player in Argo history to record 100 catches in a season. Cameron Judge will also hit the century mark for the second time in his career with two total defensive plays.<\/p>\n

Dejon Brissett is also within reach of a 1,000 receiving yard season.<\/p>\n

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The Mississauga native has already set a personal high with 887 yards, just 113 yards from his first thousand-yard season. It\u2019s a milestone within reach and in his eyes would be a significant accomplishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would,\u201d Brissett confessed to Argonauts.ca. \u201cIt would be a first. I haven\u2019t had a thousand, not even in high school, not in college, definitely not in the pros, so that would be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brissett ranks 12th in the league in that category this year and has far surpassed his previous career high of 594 yards. It\u2019s been a combination of personal improvement and opportunity that has allowed him to flirt with the grand accomplishment.<\/p>\n

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When the Argos used the second overall pick of the 2020 CFL Draft to select Brissett they saw a receiver who could help immediately on special teams, could play a little on offence, but could develop into a starting receiver that could eventually become a downfield threat. It\u2019s taken some time, but Brissett has become the player the Argos envisioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I have grown into and become the player they were expecting me to be,\u201d Brissett replied when asked if he\u2019s evolved into that player. \u201cEarlier on I had some growing pains for sure, but I feel like I\u2019ve developed and I\u2019m more confident so that allows me to play how I\u2019m supposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not the only one who feels that way. Head coach Ryan Dinwiddie was excited when Brissett was drafted. He projected Brissett would become more than just a possession receiver.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe knew he was a basketball player, we knew he had a big catch radius,\u201d Dinwiddie told Argonauts.ca. \u201cHe\u2019s physically tough, he\u2019s emotionally tough, I look forward to seeing his growth moving forward, but this year he\u2019s really improved from years past, he\u2019s really taken the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dinwiddie wasn\u2019t the only one to mention Brissett\u2019s improvement in the mental aspect of the game. The receiver says that in 2023 he started focusing on the positives instead of dwelling on every play. Now, when a defender makes a good play to break up a pass, Brissett doesn\u2019t fixate on the negatives of each incompletion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn my first couple of years that would have destroyed me. I\u2019d be thinking that I didn\u2019t catch the ball and now the coaches are looking at me like I can\u2019t play, my teammates don\u2019t think I can play. I used to take everything so personally and make everything way bigger than what it was, but now as veteran I know those guys on defence get paid as well, they made a good play on the ball, I cannot be perfect. All of the young guys need to hear that you can\u2019t have a 100-percent completion rate. If you have a 70-percent completion rate that\u2019s a good year.\u201d<\/p>\n

By that standard Brissett is having a very good year. His 62 catches on 81 targets equals a 76.5-percent completion rate. It\u2019s put him in position to reach the thousand-yard milestone with 113 yards, a total he\u2019s reached once and flirted with three other times this season.<\/p>\n

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Dinwiddie wasn\u2019t aware of how close Brissett was to the mark until recently, and admits he\u2019ll try to put both he and Mital in positions to help them achieve those goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo question,\u201d said the coach. \u201cYou always try to make sure that you take care of your players, with all the hard work they put in. We\u2019ll try to find a way to help them get to those milestones.\u201d<\/p>\n

With four Canadian players nearing significant achievements, Argo fans will have something to keep a close eye on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Toronto Argonauts season finale in Calgary means nothing in the standings to them, a quartet of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-217022","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\/217022","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=217022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}