The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed Canadian receiver Kian Schaffer-Baker to a two-year contract extension through the 2027 CFL season.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-four, 195-pound pass catcher\u00a0continues his career in Green and White\u00a0after being selected by the Riders in the fourth round, 30th overall during\u00a0the 2020 CFL Draft. The Mississauga, Ontario native has played 57 career games for Saskatchewan, registering 220 receptions for 2,865 yards and 14 touchdowns. He\u00a0has an impressive 1,025 yards after catch and a 13-yards-per-catch average.<\/p>\n
During\u00a0five regular season games in 2025, Schaffer-Baker had 15 receptions for 177 yards, an average of 11.8 yards per catch.\u00a0In the West\u00a0Final,\u00a0he caught a three-yard touchdown pass on a third-down gamble to complete an eight-play, 64-yard march down field. The longest play on that drive was also by No. 89\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a 25-yard reception. He added three receptions for 27 yards in the\u00a0112th Grey Cup.<\/p>\n
After signing a contract\u00a0extension in\u00a02024, Schaffer-Baker posted 52 receptions for 735 yards and four touchdowns, tying a career-high in average yards per catch at 14.1. He added another\u00a0post-season performance to his career that season, setting a Roughriders record for post-season receptions with 12, while his 162 yards was the second-best total in franchise\u00a0playoff history.<\/p>\n
Since joining the team, the 27-year-old has endeared himself to Rider Nation, not only for his relentless passion on the field but as someone who\u00a0has time for a genuine interaction or to sign an autograph. In the 2024, he joined the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation as a Player Ambassador and spends the off-season giving back to the province through the Foundation\u2019s Win with Wellness and Rider Reading programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed Canadian receiver Kian Schaffer-Baker to a two-year contract extension through the 2027 CFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421455,"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-421454","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\/421454","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=421454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}