Marc Mueller called Emilus “the best player in the league”<\/a> after the Green and White hoisted the Grey Cup and the confetti had fallen at Princess Auto Stadium. Despite becoming what’s believed to be the highest-paid national pass catcher in the CFL’s salary cap era and possibly in league history, No. 19 believes he’s underrated by people outside Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n“I do feel sometimes people take me for granted in this league, that’s 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 out and prove that I’m one of the best,” Emilus said.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always been a humble guy, I put my head down, work hard, and I know eventually I’m going to be at the top. That’s exactly what happened in 2025, this is in the past now, I’m already getting ready for 2026 and prove it all over again.”<\/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
“The Alouettes couldn’t do it,” Emilus said, “but I’ll do it.”<\/p>\n
That could be the most uniquely Canadian way to eat poutine.<\/p>\n
Editor’s note: for around the clock Canadian Football League news and analysis, check out 3DownNation.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver and 112th Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian Samuel Emilus has $285,000 reasons to smile this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-433076","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\/433076","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=433076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}