The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed Canadian\u00a0running back Thomas Bertrand-Hudon to a one-year contract extension through 2026. He was scheduled to become a CFL free agent in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The six-foot, 220-pound Bertrand-Hudon\u00a0has appeared in 42 career games with the Riders. He’s\u00a0rushed\u00a064 times for 365 yards, 5.7 per carry,\u00a0with\u00a0four touchdowns. The national back\u00a0has also registered eight receptions for 50 yards, 17 kickoff returns for 413 yards, and 23 special teams tackles.<\/p>\n
Bertrand-Hudon rushed 14 times for a game-high 57 yards, including a six-yard touchdown, against Ottawa in the 2025 regular season opener and\u00a0caught his first CFL touchdown pass during Saskatchewan’s 31-26 win.\u00a0In seven regular-season games, he carried the ball 34 times for 166 yards, hauled in\u00a0six passes for 34 yards, and contributed on special teams\u00a0with six tackles and one\u00a017-yard kickoff return. The Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec native\u00a0helped the Roughriders win the West\u00a0Final and 112th Grey Cup.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Bertrand-Hudon\u00a0registered\u00a017 carries for 103 yards, 6.1 per carry, and one touchdown in 17 games. As well, he returned five kickoffs for 128 yards, 25.6\u00a0average,\u00a0and made seven special teams tackles.<\/p>\n
As a rookie in 2023, Bertrand-Hudon dressed for all regular season 18 games, carrying the ball 13 times for 96 yards, 7.0 per carry,\u00a0and scored\u00a0his first two professional touchdowns 67 seconds apart against the\u00a0B.C. Lions on September\u00a029. He added 11 kickoff returns for 268 yards, 24.4\u00a0average,\u00a0and 10 special teams tackles.<\/p>\n
Bertrand-Hudon was selected by the Riders in the fourth round, 30th overall during\u00a0the 2023 CFL Draft. Collegiately, he\u00a0spent four seasons (2019-2022) at Delaware State,\u00a0he totalled 239 carries for 1,016 yards and 10 touchdowns, adding 11 receptions for 51 yards over 27 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed Canadian\u00a0running back Thomas Bertrand-Hudon to a one-year contract extension through 2026. He was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,4404,4398,1893,4397,4402,4401,4400,4399,82,4403],"class_list":["post-352170","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-country","tag-country-music","tag-radio","tag-regina-news","tag-reigna-pats","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sports","tag-sportscage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352170","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=352170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}