{"id":432869,"date":"2026-01-25T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:38:09","slug":"samuel-emilus-feels-saskatchewan-roughriders-paid-what-he-was-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432869\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Emilus feels Saskatchewan Roughriders paid what he was worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver and 112th Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian Samuel Emilus has $285,000 reasons to smile this year.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how much the 28-year-old will earn from playing for the Roughriders during the 2026 CFL season. He signed a two-year contract extension on Christmas Eve<\/a>, which also includes $290,000 in hard money compensation for the 2027 CFL season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m going to say is, I\u2019m definitely happy with my situation with the Roughriders. When you negotiate a new contract, you go off what you have done on the field, what you can do on the field, and the awards that you win,\u201d Emilus said on The SportsCage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen me and my agent sat down, we saw what the market was looking,\u00a0and we came up with the numbers that were the number. I wouldn\u2019t say I took a discount, I think I got paid what I was worth, but if they feel that I was a discount,\u00a0it is what it is. I\u2019m happy with my contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

The six-foot, 200-pound receiver produced 19 receptions for 208 yards in the 2025 West Final and CFL championship games combined. He recorded nine grabs for 100 yards in a 24-21 win over the B.C. Lions and registered 10 receptions for 108 yards in a 25-17 victory against the Montreal Alouettes to earn MVC honours<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won the biggest prize, but we\u2019re ready to chase\u00a0even more. That\u2019s how greedy our team is, in order to be able to win multiple\u00a0championships, you got to be greedy,\u201d Emilus said as Saskatchewan tries to go back-to-back for the first time in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Offensive coordinator Marc Mueller called Emilus \u201cthe best player in the league\u201d<\/a> after the Green and White hoisted the Grey Cup and the confetti had fallen at Princess Auto Stadium. Despite becoming what\u2019s believed to be the highest-paid national pass catcher in the CFL\u2019s salary cap era and possibly in league history, No. 19 believes he\u2019s underrated by people outside Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do feel sometimes\u00a0people take me for granted in this league, that\u2019s how I feel, and some players on my team feel the same way. I use that as my advantage, I use that as a chip on my shoulder to go year in and year\u00a0out and prove that I\u2019m one of the best,\u201d Emilus said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been a humble guy, I put my head down, work hard, and I know\u00a0eventually I\u2019m going to be at the top. That\u2019s exactly what happened in 2025, this is in the\u00a0past now, I\u2019m already getting ready for 2026 and prove it all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emilus has not had his day with the big silver trophy yet, but plans to use his time with it in his hometown, which happens to be Montreal. He has a spot picked out to eat poutine from the Grey Cup in La Belle province when it comes to Quebec.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Alouettes couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d Emilus said, \u201cbut I\u2019ll do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That could be the most uniquely Canadian way to eat poutine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved. Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver and 112th Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian Samuel Emilus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[123197,166835,166836,49,48,7028,521,522,520,68627,180081,180082,180083,45083,55574,180084,112017,24373,4400,82,4403,22073],"class_list":["post-432869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-112th-grey-cup","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-grey-cup","tag-grey-cup-mvc","tag-most-valuable-canadian","tag-poutine","tag-riders","tag-roughriders","tag-sam-emilus","tag-samuel-emilus","tag-saskatchewan","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-sports","tag-sportscage","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432869","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=432869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}