One of the best CFL quarterbacks of his generation \u00a0\u2013 a possible Hall of Famer and someone who, at 39 years old, is a contender for Most Outstanding Player this season \u2013 still isn\u2019t quite sure he\u2019s \u201cmade it\u201d yet.<\/p>\n
Trevor Harris is authoring one of the best seasons of his 13-year career for the league-leading 7-1 Saskatchewan Roughriders. In his third season in green and white, he leads all QBs with a 119.7 efficiency rating and his 13 touchdown passes are tied for second.<\/p>\n
Harris\u2019 success dates back well before 2025. He entered the league in 2012 and is now 16th all-time in passing yards, fifth in passing yards per game, and second in career completion percentage. Harris has been\u00a0a part of\u00a0two Grey Cup champion teams (2012, 2016) and been an all-star twice (2016, 2024).<\/p>\n
But he isn\u2019t satisfied.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still feel like I\u2019m constantly trying to prove myself,\u201d the Edinboro University product said during the team\u2019s bye week. \u201cI think I\u2019ll always feel that way and I think I still have a ton to prove in this league, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several years ago, Harris enlisted the services of Dr. Chantale Lussier, a mental performance coach he met while playing for the Ottawa RedBlacks back in 2018.<\/p>\n
Dr. Lussier has worked with high-level athletes across multiple sports, including hockey and lacrosse. Harris said that the two have focused on how he can be the best, most authentic version of himself \u2013 both in the huddle and beyond.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve talked a lot about just being yourself,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat that looks like, and being able to exude confidence and understanding who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris allowed that he feels far more at ease with himself now than he did earlier in his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you grow as a person and get more and more comfortable in your own skin and as a leader, you can kind of assert what you want to have done in the locker room,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you have a little bit more success, you can talk to the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roughriders head coach Corey Mace said that Harris\u2019 approach sums up why he\u2019s had so much success and longevity in a league notorious for cycling through quarterbacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had put him on a pedestal, and I needed a bigger one,\u201d Mace said. \u201cThe way he sees the game, the way he takes care of everything that\u2019s related to it, the intangibles and important things for us, how he is as a husband, how he is as a father, a man of faith. He checks so many boxes of what it looks like that we\u2019re trying to say what a Roughrider is. He\u2019s been incredible, and, obviously, he\u2019s pretty good at football too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris\u2019 touchdown-to-interceptions ratio this season is among the best of his career. He attributed that to the fact that, for the first time since 2017, he\u2019s had the same system in consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been really able to help me in terms of being able to process and start at a [higher] level coming into the season as opposed to just trying to learn the basics of a certain offence,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s been really helpful for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Mace and Harris said it\u2019s far too early to praise the Roughriders, and that there\u2019s still plenty of work ahead of fall football. They still have areas of their game they want to clean up before November. The process is far from complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we want to be the team that accomplishes what we have set out, we\u2019ve got to make sure we don\u2019t settle,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I don\u2019t think it\u2019s important for us to look at the end result. We\u2019re 7-1. That\u2019s great, man. That is great, but really it\u2019s about who we\u2019re becoming in the process. You can kind of let up if you start patting yourself on the back and saying, \u2018We\u2019re 7-1 and we\u2019ve done a good job.\u2019 That\u2019s not where we\u2019re at.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to make sure we stay true to the process, continue to press on the pedal, and understand that the team\u2019s that\u2019s going to accomplish what we want to accomplish is better than what we are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Much of that process is driven by an established veteran still intent on proving he belongs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s a trait of anybody, not even just in sport but anyone who wants to be great at something, they\u2019re never complacent,\u201d Mace said. \u201cThere\u2019s always something that they\u2019re chasing, whether that\u2019s reality or something that\u2019s self-talk to convince yourself that you\u2019ve got another bar that you\u2019ve got to cross. I think the greats do that, and certainly for him, if he wanted to call it and pack it in, I\u2019m sure everyone would bring him up as one of the best quarterbacks to ever play up here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not Trev. He\u2019s got so much on his mind that he wants to accomplish. Truthfully, I don\u2019t think he gets the respect he deserves anyways, so I\u2019m happy he thinks like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the best CFL quarterbacks of his generation \u00a0\u2013 a possible Hall of Famer and someone who,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-55312","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\/55312","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=55312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}