{"id":398983,"date":"2026-01-09T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:08:08","slug":"riders-add-johnson-stusek-to-2026-coaching-staff-announce-football-operations-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398983\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders Add Johnson, Stusek To 2026 Coaching Staff, Announce Football Operations Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders are pleased to announce the Roughriders\u2019\u202fCoaching and Football Operations staff for the 2026 Canadian Football League season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New additions to Head Coach Corey Mace\u2019s staff for the 2026 campaign are Micah Johnson (Defensive Line) and Jeff\u00a0Stusek\u00a0(Assistant, Special Teams).\u202fIn addition, Joshua Bell has been named the Club\u2019s Defensive Coordinator. Jordan Linnen will take over as the Defensive Backs Coach.\u202fThe remaining members of the 2025 Champion Coaching and Football Operations Staff will continue in their positions for the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Micah Johnson\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defensive Line\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One the league\u2019s premiere interior defensive lineman will stay in Green and White to coach the position he spent 13 years excelling at. On the field Johnson was known power, consistency and leadership in the trenches and he built a career that included three Grey Cup championships, five All-CFL selections and seven divisional All-CFL nods. Johnson officially announced\u00a0his retirement on January 5th, having appeared in 177 regular season games, tallying 309 defensive tackles and 71 sacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jeff\u00a0Stusek\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant, Special Teams\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stusek\u00a0joins the Roughriders with an extensive background coaching football in Saskatchewan. He joined the University of Regina Rams program in 2017, serving as the Receivers Coach for three seasons, before transitioning to the Special Teams Coordinator in 2020. He was named the Assistant Head Coach of the program in 2022. Beyond the university level,\u00a0Stusek\u00a0served\u00a0as the\u00a0Head\u00a0Coach of Team Saskatchewan during their back-to-back Football Canada Cup championships in 2018 and 2019,\u00a0assisted\u00a0with the\u00a0South\u00a0Sask\u00a0Selects program and has coached\u00a0High School and\u00a0Regina Minor Football.\u00a0He was a member of the\u00a0Riders\u2019\u00a0Board of Directors from 2010 to 2019, serving three three-year terms.\u00a0Most recently,\u00a0Stusek\u00a0joined the Roughriders as a guest coach at Training Camp in 2024 and 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Full biographies of all Roughriders Coaches and Football Operations Staff can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riderville.com\/football_operations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Football Operations\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vice President, Football Operations and General Manager\u00a0<br \/>\nJeremy O\u2019Day\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant General Manager\u00a0and Director of Player Personnel\u00a0<br \/>\nKyle Carson\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant General Manager\u00a0<br \/>\nPaul Jones\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Director, Football Operations\u00a0<br \/>\nJordan Greenly\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Director of\u00a0Player Personnel\u00a0<br \/>\nLarry Dean\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coaching Staff\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nCorey Mace\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Offensive Coordinator\u00a0<br \/>\nMarc Mueller\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defensive Coordinator\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nJoshua Bell\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Special Teams Coordinator\u00a0<br \/>\nKent Maugeri\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Offensive Line\u00a0<br \/>\nEdwin Harrison\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Receivers\u00a0<br \/>\nMarquay McDaniel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Running Backs\u00a0<br \/>\nAndrew Harris\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Offensive Assistant\u00a0<br \/>\nJosh Donnelly\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Run Game Coordinator and Linebackers\u00a0<br \/>\nTravis Brown\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defensive Line\u00a0<br \/>\nMicah Johnson\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defensive\u00a0Backs\u00a0<br \/>\nJordan Linnen\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Special Teams\u00a0<br \/>\nJeff\u00a0Stusek\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Equipment Staff\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manager, Equipment\u00a0<br \/>\nGordon Gilroy\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Manager, Equipment\u00a0<br \/>\nTy Robinson\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video Staff\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manager, Video and Analytics\u00a0<br \/>\nNick Bowley\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video and Analytics\u00a0<br \/>\nNathan Schellenberg\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video and Analytics\u00a0<br \/>\nMichael Woytowich\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Health &amp;\u00a0Wellness\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head Athletic Therapist\u00a0<br \/>\nGreg Mayer\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Head Athletic Therapist\u00a0<br \/>\nBrooke\u00a0Kosolofski\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head, Strength and Conditioning\u00a0<br \/>\nDan Farthing\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team Chaplain\u00a0<br \/>\nJared\u00a0LaCoste\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders are pleased to announce the Roughriders\u2019\u202fCoaching and Football Operations staff for the 2026 Canadian Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-398983","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398983","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=398983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}