{"id":297501,"date":"2025-11-21T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297501\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:44:13","slug":"jermarcus-hardrick-believes-contract-extension-can-be-done-with-saskatchewan-roughriders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297501\/","title":{"rendered":"Jermarcus Hardrick believes contract extension can be done with Saskatchewan Roughriders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Jermarcus Hardrick does not have a contract for the 2026 CFL season or beyond, but he hopes it\u2019s not long until he signs a new deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be back, I want to do it again. Love coming to work, wish we can do it again. Let\u2019s go earn it,\u201d Hardrick said from inside the Roughriders\u2019 locker room.<\/p>\n

When the six-foot-four, 315-pound right tackle signed with Saskatchewan during free agency in 2024, general manager Jeremy O\u2019Day made him the highest-paid American offensive lineman in the CFL. He earned $218,000 in 2025<\/a>, on a deal that was reworked in January leading into the season, and over $230,000 in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave to do what\u2019s best for the family, but I do want to be comfortable. I do enjoy coming to work every day, so I\u2019m pretty sure we can get it done,\u201d Hardrick, the pending free agent<\/a>, said regarding a contract extension with the Green and White.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old sent a text to all-star centre Logan Ferland after the Riders won the 112th Grey Cup: \u2018Back-to-back?\u2019 The Melfort, Sask., native responded by saying the team should enjoy the 2025 CFL championship and consider what\u2019s to come in the future.<\/p>\n

Ferland is more comfortable than Hardrick because he has a contract with Saskatchewan through the 2027 season. If the CFL\u2019s Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman stays in Riderville, he would like starting quarterback Trevor Harris<\/a> to be with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe makes my job a lot easier; he gets the ball out. He\u2019s a great leader. He\u2019s the MVP of the Grey Cup. I would love to have Trevor back,\u201d Hardrick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife\u2026 she\u2019s already talking about coming back, so we can make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hardrick added there were a couple times in his years in the Manitoba capital when he accepted less money than he could\u2019ve received elsewhere to keep Winnipeg\u2019s core group together. The Riders\u2019 rival won back-to-back Grey Cups in 2019 and 2021 as the Blue Bombers made four straight CFL championship games prior to him leaving for Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

\u201cGot a couple Grey Cups, playoff bonuses. Now that I look back, it was the right thing to do to keep the band together,\u201d Hardrick said. \u201cYou always have to do what\u2019s best for you, so there\u2019s always a hard conversation to have with someone. If it works for their family, and it works for us, let\u2019s keep the band together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Batesville, Mississippi native has been in the CFL since 2014. He has won three Grey Cups, earned three CFL all-star designations and suited up in 159 games with the Riders, Bombers, and B.C. Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved. Jermarcus Hardrick does not have a contract for the 2026 CFL season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-297501","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\/297501","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=297501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}