Jacob Brammer is a player with layers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI bought my first winter coat,\u201d the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 All-CFL right guard says. \u201cLast year, I was kind of surviving without one. Then I decided, \u2018I may as well get one if I\u2019m going to be up here full-time.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
Soon to be added to the look: A Grey Cup ring.<\/p>\n
The Texas-born Brammer was part of a formidable offensive line that helped the 2025 Roughriders finish first overall in the CFL\u2019s regular-season standings and capture the fifth championship in franchise history.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s always room for improvement, but it was one of my favourite seasons of my whole career,\u201d says Brammer, 26, who became entrenched as a front-liner as a second-year Roughrider in 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt just like a brotherhood. We all hung out at the house. There were no cliques throughout the team. Everyone felt like we could hang out with anyone on the team. It was a fun time for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
And a rather novel one.<\/p>\n
Brammer experienced only one winning season in the U.S. college ranks \u2014 with the North Texas Mean Green (9-4) in 2018.<\/p>\n
North Texas then went 4-8 (2019), 4-6 (2020) and 6-7 (2021) before Brammer transferred to Vanderbilt, which was 2-6 in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome university teams were (close-knit), but we really didn\u2019t win anything so it was more just a fun time,\u201d Brammer recalls.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our COVID year, we didn\u2019t do a ton of school, so we were just kind of hanging out and everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere, we all showed up for work and put in the extra work and hung out with each other outside of work. It really built our chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chemistry was a major reason why Brammer signed a one-year contract extension with the Green and White on Jan. 26.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a big relief to me to get that,\u201d says Brammer, who had been eligible to test free agency. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be anywhere else. I love Saskatchewan. I love the people here. I love our team and our coaches, so it\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Corey) Mace and the whole coaching staff make it easy to come to work every day. You put together our offensive line group and, really, our whole team and everybody we were able to bring back. It was an easy decision for me once we got to talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sort of like the decision to buy a winter coat \u2014\u00a0not something many residents of Richmond, Texas are accustomed to purchasing.<\/p>\n
There are, of course, other adjustments.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing from the States, I didn\u2019t know how big a deal the Grey Cup was,\u201d Brammer says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, after the clock hit zero (in the 2025 Grey Cup Game), you got to see all the emotion run down on everyone\u2019s faces who was born and raised here.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt meant that much more to me to see how much it meant to everyone, players and fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Brammer is a player with layers. \u201cI bought my first winter coat,\u201d the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 All-CFL right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-454150","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\/454150","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=454150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}