{"id":295115,"date":"2025-11-20T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295115\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:57:20","slug":"riders-legend-darian-durant-believes-trevor-harris-will-play-for-saskatchewan-in-2026-cfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295115\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders legend Darian Durant believes Trevor Harris will play for Saskatchewan in 2026 CFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatchewan Roughriders legend Darian Durant can envision\u00a0quarterback Trevor Harris returning to the Green and White for the 2026 CFL season after the Green and White\u00a0won the 112th Grey Cup 25-17 over\u00a0the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Trevor has a chance to do something that has never been done in Riders history &#8212;\u00a0back-to-back Grey Cups. The nucleus of this team is there, everything you could ask for in every single position.\u00a0You have weapons across the board and\u00a0this defence that forced four turnovers in the Grey Cup as well,&#8221;\u00a0Durant said on the SportsCage.<\/p>\n<p>According to 3DownNation insider Justin Dunk, the <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2025\/11\/17\/trevor-harris-paints-grey-cup-masterpiece-and-seven-other-thoughts-on-saskatchewan-25-17-win-over-montreal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riders have around\u00a040 pending free agents<\/a>. That&#8217;s a lot of work ahead for general manager Jeremy O&#8217;Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it&#8217;s going to be tough to get every single guy, but I&#8217;m sure J.O. and Corey [Mace] will get the nucleus back and make sure the defence stays intact. Why not run it back? I get that, [Trevor&#8217;s]\u00a0going on 40 and at that point in time, you get a little brittle and things start to slow down a little bit for you, but he seems to be playing at such a high level,&#8221; Durant said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s not a quarterback that relies on his legs or mobility to have success, so as long as he&#8217;s still processing defences at a high level, getting rid of the ball and keeping himself out of harm&#8217;s way, I see an opportunity for him to come back.\u00a0They have a possibility of running it back, you don&#8217;t get the same team back at the Grey Cups quite often. If the Riders can keep this nucleus together,\u00a0I think they have an opportunity to do something that&#8217;s never been done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the 2025 regular season, Harris started 16\u00a0games for the Green and White, completing 74 percent of his passes for 4,549 yards, 24 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions. He was voted the team&#8217;s\u00a0Most Outstanding Player. The six-foot-three,\u00a0212-pound QB completed\u00a023-of-27 passes for 302 yards in the CFL championship game, which earned\u00a0him the 112th Grey Cup MVP award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For him to come out and do what he&#8217;s been doing his entire career,\u00a0I was going to say just this season, but for his entire career\u00a0he has been efficient. Take what the defence presents, not force the ball, make sure that you give your guys a chance to run after the catch and pick your defence apart &#8212;\u00a0he did a great job of that,&#8221; Durant said about Harris&#8217; Grey Cup performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a little bit worried on that first drive when [Kabion] Ento dropped that pick. It reminded me early on in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscage.com\/centerpiece\/ill-never-forget-darian-durant-reflects-on-11-year-anniversary-for-riders-2013-grey-cup-win-9875417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Grey Cup<\/a> when I fumbled and [Kory] Sheets was there to pick it up. Sometimes you need lucky plays like that to happen as well. But other than that, which happened early in the first quarter, I think he played a pretty flawless game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harris set a record for completion percentage in a Grey Cup game, his\u00a085 percent is the highest ever, beating the previous mark\u00a0of 83 set by Zach Callaros\u00a0in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, this Grey Cup victory marks the first in Harris&#8217; career in which he won as a starter. The first time was in 2012 with the Toronto Argonauts when\u00a0Ricky Ray was the starter. The second was in 2016,\u00a0Harris was with the Ottawa Redblacks when\u00a0Henry Burris was the starter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re as accurate as he is, he&#8217;ll definitely go down as one of the more accurate guys in our league history. Once you get that Grey Cup as a starter,\u00a0you can never take it away from him. That&#8217;s what you play the game for, to win the ultimate prize, to be able to win the Grey Cup, as he backed up Henry Burris and Ricky Ray, who are two Hall of Fame guys. He has a couple of rings to show for it, but there&#8217;s nothing that could ever compare to winning it as a starter and for the clock to tick to zero, that it&#8217;s happened for you,&#8221; Durant said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like for me, it happened later on in our careers. So to go through all the trials and tribulations, teams throwing them to the side, not knowing what his next move is year after year\u00a0for the most part,\u00a0to seemingly find a home here in Saskatchewan and get it done &#8212;\u00a0it definitely cements him as a legend.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders legend Darian Durant can envision\u00a0quarterback Trevor Harris returning to the Green and White for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,133040,82],"class_list":["post-295115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-saskatchewan-roughriderstrevor-harrisdarian-durantgrey-cup-2025","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295115","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=295115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}