The Saskatchewan Roughriders are running it back with the man who guided them to glory.<\/p>\n
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are running it back with the man who guided them to glory.<\/p>\n
Fresh off hoisting the Grey Cup in Winnipeg, the Green and White have re-signed quarterback Trevor Harris to a one-year contract extension, keeping the CFL\u2019s hottest hand right where Rider Nation wants him.<\/p>\n
Harris was nothing short of spectacular in 2025, capping his season with a championship performance for the ages. The veteran pivot carved up the Montreal Alouettes in the Grey Cup, completing 23 of 27 passes for 302 yards and an eye-popping 85.2% completion rate, now a Grey Cup record. When the confetti settled on a 25-17 Riders win, there was zero suspense about the MVP vote. It was Harris\u2019s moment, and he delivered in every sense.<\/p>\n
His heroics didn\u2019t start on Grey Cup Sunday. Just a week earlier at Mosaic Stadium, Harris engineered one of the great playoff drives in Riders history: a seven-play, 76-yard march in the Western Final that began with 1:03 on the clock and ended with Saskatchewan punching their ticket to the big game for the first time since 2013. He finished that day with 305 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old\u2019s regular-season resume\u00a0wasn\u2019t too shabby either. Harris started 16 games, threw for 4,549 yards and 24 touchdowns, and led the league in completion percentage at 73.6%. He earned CFL Player of the Month honours twice (July and October) and picked up five weekly selections along the way.<\/p>\n
Now, Harris enters 2026 with career numbers that place him firmly among the CFL\u2019s elite:
\n\u2022 37,697 passing yards (13th all-time)
\n\u2022 3,097 completions (9th)
\n\u2022 204 touchdown passes (15th)
\n\u2022 70.1 percent\u00a0career completion rate \u2014 second-best in league history<\/p>\n
This is a quarterback who has been rewriting record books long before he donned the Green and White. In 2024, despite missing six games, Harris set a Riders single-season completion record (72.4%) and earned West Division All-CFL honours. His 2023 campaign, shortened by injury, still showcased his accuracy and poise as he threw for 1,274 yards in just five appearances.<\/p>\n
Before landing in Saskatchewan, Harris starred in Montreal, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Toronto, earning All-CFL honours in both divisions and picking up a pair of Grey Cup rings along the way (2012 with Toronto; 2016 with Ottawa). Over his stops, he set playoff marks for completions and touchdown passes in a game and consistently established himself as one of the CFL\u2019s top precision passers.<\/p>\n
The Ohio native was equally decorated in college, rewriting records at Edinboro University and leaving as one of the most prolific passers in NCAA Division II history.<\/p>\n
As the Riders begin their defence of the franchise\u2019s fifth championship, Trevor Harris will once again be at the controls, much to the delight of Rider Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders are running it back with the man who guided them to glory. The Saskatchewan Roughriders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,144176,82],"class_list":["post-326233","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-harris","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326233","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=326233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}