Grey Cup champion pivot joined The SportsCage at Canada\u2019s Farm Show to talk about the off-season and what\u2019s ahead<\/p>\n
REGINA — Saskatchewan Roughriders’ quarterback Trevor Harris isn\u2019t one to rest on his laurels.<\/p>\n
It would be easy for the 39-year-old, 13-year veteran of the Canadian Football League\u00a0to simply sit back and relax after winning the Grey Cup last season, but that\u2019s been anything but the case. Off-season workouts — both physical and mental — and plenty of preparation have gone into getting ready for the 2026 campaign, which is now only a few months away. All with the goal of doing everything possible to put together another winning run and bring another championship to Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n
Harris stopped by The SportsCage booth at Canada\u2019s Farm Show\u00a0and spent some time chatting with Barney Shynkaruk and Don Hewitt about the off-season and the upcoming campaign, with one of the topics touching on coming into the new season as Grey Cup champions<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s something that has been weighing on me,\u201d Harris admitted. \u201cLike now what are you going to do? I think that what it comes down to is you have events, responses and outcomes in your life, and it\u2019s how are you going to respond? So that’s kind of been my thing, for us to challenge each other this year.”<\/p>\n
\u201cHow high can we take this thing? How high can we push to the ceiling? Just how good can we be? We need to make sure we’re staying on the gas pedal and that’s one thing I’m not worried about because of who’s guiding us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris\u2019 dedication to getting ready for the upcoming campaign even extended into how he looked back on the previous one — he\u2019d only watched the Riders Grey Cup victory a single time, in no small part due to his focus on reviewing the rest of the league to get a jump on 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I got home, I took the first week-and-a-half off of watching film,\u00a0then I got right to the West opponents,\u201d Harris said, adding\u00a0he has watched Montreal\u2019s offence from the game twice. \u201cI\u2019ve been putting notes together, about four or five pages on each team\u2026 so it’s\u00a0on to the next. I hate to be\u00a0anticlimactic, but that’s it. I was\u00a0like, cool, but it was encouraging because I was nervous that I was chasing this trophy my whole career.\u201d<\/p>\n
That, of course, is not to say he hasn\u2019t enjoyed the championship off-season and what\u2019s all come with it. One of the highlights has been the province-wide Grey Cup tour, which took Harris himself to La Loche and Buffalo Narrows in the northern part of the province. That was a special experience, especially to see how much folks in the communities love the Roughriders.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was kind of funny, you went to a high school and you asked, ‘How many of you guys watched the Grey Cup?’\u00a0Everybody’s hand would go up,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThey need to know that we care about those people up there as well. I mean, we’re the Saskatchewan Roughriders, not the Regina Roughriders, we’re a community team, but this whole province is in this together. We need them to know that we’re their team as well and we have their backs. Getting to meet those people and learn about their culture is really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n