REGINA \u2014 The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced on Friday the Roughriders\u2019 coaching and football operations staff for the 2026 Canadian Football League season.<\/p>\n
New additions to head coach Corey Mace\u2019s staff for the 2026 campaign are Micah Johnson<\/a> (defensive line) and Jeff Stusek (assistant, special teams). In addition, Joshua Bell<\/a> has been named the club\u2019s defensive coordinator. Jordan Linnen will take over as the defensive backs coach. The remaining members of the 112th Grey Cup-winning coaching and football operations staff will continue in their positions for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n RELATED \u00a0<\/p>\n Micah Johnson, one the league\u2019s premier 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 his retirement on January 5th, having appeared in 177 regular season games, tallying 309 defensive tackles and 71 sacks.<\/p>\n Jeff Stusek joins 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, Stusek served as the head coach of Team Saskatchewan during their back-to-back Football Canada Cup championships in 2018 and 2019, assisted with the South Sask Selects program and has coached High School and Regina Minor Football. He was a member of the Riders\u2019 Board of Directors from 2010 to 2019, serving three three-year terms. Most recently, Stusek joined the Roughriders as a guest coach at Training Camp in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 2026 football operations staff<\/p>\n Vice President, Football Operations and General Manager \u2013 Jeremy O\u2019Day Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 2026 coaching staff<\/p>\n Head Coach \u2013 Corey Mace
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\nAssistant General Manager and Director of Player Personnel \u2013 Kyle Carson
\nAssistant General Manager \u2013 Paul Jones
\nDirector, Football Operations \u2013 Jordan Greenly
\nAssistant Director of Player Personnel \u2013\u00a0Larry Dean<\/a><\/p>\n
\nOffensive Coordinator \u2013 Marc Mueller
\nDefensive Coordinator \u2013\u00a0Joshua Bell<\/a>
\nSpecial Teams Coordinator \u2013 Kent Maugeri
\nOffensive Line \u2013 Edwin Harrison
\nReceivers \u2013\u00a0Marquay McDaniel<\/a>
\nRunning Backs \u2013\u00a0Andrew Harris<\/a>
\nOffensive Assistant \u2013 Josh Donnelly
\nRun Game Coordinator and Linebackers \u2013 Travis Brown
\nDefensive Line \u2013\u00a0Micah Johnson<\/a>
\nDefensive Backs \u2013 Jordan Linnen
\nAssistant Special Teams \u2013 Jeff Stusek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REGINA \u2014 The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced on Friday the Roughriders\u2019 coaching and football operations staff for the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-399780","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\/399780","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=399780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}