{"id":276891,"date":"2025-11-11T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276891\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:50:08","slug":"first-grey-cup-experience-is-truly-special-for-samuel-emilus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276891\/","title":{"rendered":"First Grey Cup experience is &#8220;truly special&#8221; for Samuel Emilus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riderville.com\/2025\/11\/10\/samuel-emilus-november-10th\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Emilus<\/a> has taken the full-circle route to the 112th Grey Cup Game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in Montreal and I grew up watching the Alouettes, and now I\u2019m playing them in a Grey Cup,\u201d the 28-year-old Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver remarked on Monday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riderville.com\/2025\/11\/10\/we-want-the-cup-roughriders-determined-to-deliver-after-arriving-in-winnipeg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the team arrived in Winnipeg<\/a>, where the CFL\u2019s championship game is to be played on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s truly special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emilus helped the Roughriders advance to their first Grey Cup since 2013 by registering game-high totals of nine catches and 100 receiving yards in Saturday\u2019s Western Final against the B.C. Lions.<\/p>\n<p>His 23-yard reception ignited the Roughriders\u2019 seven-play, 76-yard march for the game-winning touchdown \u2014 a three-yard pass from Trevor Harris to Tommy Nield with 11 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter at Mosaic Stadium. The home side won, 24-21.<\/p>\n<p>Harris completed six passes on the decisive drive. The first three connections were with Emilus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruthfully, I just love this team,\u201d Harris said on Monday, when he and Emilus met with the media at Winnipeg Richardson International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou love your brothers and you love each other in the locker room. I see my teammate back there \u2014 Sam Emilus \u2014\u00a0and I want to see him hoist that Grey Cup over his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith what he has gone through this year with returning from his injuries and how hard he has fought and how great a football player he is, I don\u2019t think he has gotten the respect he has deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emilus, who has fought through foot and knee injuries, caught 37 passes for 588 yards and two touchdowns in seven regular-season games for the 2025 Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p>Extrapolate those stats over a full schedule (18 regular-season games) and he produced at a 95-catch, 1,512-yard pace.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the kind of numbers one would associate with, for example, S.J. Green \u2014\u00a0who, as a member of the Alouettes, became Emilus\u2019s favourite player.<\/p>\n<p>Green, a Canadian Football Hall of Famer, played in the 2010 Grey Cup and helped Montreal register its second consecutive championship-game victory over Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>Emilus joined Green in the CFL\u2019s 1,000-yard club in 2023 and hit the milestone again the following year.<\/p>\n<p>The hope now is to celebrate another landmark by contributing to the fifth Grey Cup win in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith my first Grey Cup being against (Montreal), it\u2019s going to make the experience even better,\u201d Emilus said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited for the opportunity and we\u2019re going to make the most out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014\u00a0Samuel Emilus has taken the full-circle route to the 112th Grey Cup Game. \u201cI grew up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-276891","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\/276891","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=276891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}