{"id":617427,"date":"2026-04-20T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/617427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:07:12","slug":"rob-bagg-dan-clark-paul-mccallum-to-join-saskatchewan-roughriders-plaza-of-honour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/617427\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Bagg, Dan Clark, Paul McCallum to join Saskatchewan Roughriders Plaza of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a lifelong friend and, ultimately, as I look back on my time in Saskatchewan, I like to think I gave everything I possibly could to the club but the more time I have away from the game, the more time I have time to reflect what the province and the community and organization gave to me, I\u2019m not sure it was a balanced trade. It was just such an incredible experience down there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bagg signed with Saskatchewan as an undrafted free agent in 2007, but chose to return to college for an additional year before his first CFL season in 2009. He amassed 27 career touchdowns and four seasons with more than 50 receptions, and won the Grey Cup with the Riders in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He was selected as the Riders\u2019 most outstanding Canadian in 2009 and 2015, and sits sixth in the team\u2019s history for catches (364) and 10th in receiving yards (4,706).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone always talks about talent \u2026 but I think it\u2019s understated when it comes to effort as being a talent. I think it\u2019s a tangible thing that some people bring to the table naturally,\u201d Bagg said. \u201cFrom a young kid all the way until I got to the Riders, it was every setback I had that ultimately provided me the strength I needed for the next challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time I got to the Riders as an undrafted, relatively unknown receiver. I think that was the perfect motivation. I\u2019ve always been the type who likes to be pushed and challenged. When I feel like someone else deems themself to be better than I, that\u2019s when it\u2019s game on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark, who was also a member of the championship Roughriders squad in 2013, became the team\u2019s starting centre in 2015 and continued in that role through the 2022 season. Born in Regina, Clark was named the All-CFL centre in 2019 after the team posted a 13-5 record for the top spot in the league\u2019s West Division.<\/p>\n<p>He was chosen as the team\u2019s most outstanding offensive lineman in both 2019 and 2021, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjme.com\/2022\/10\/28\/riders-dan-clark-nominated-for-jake-gaudaur-veterans-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">won the league\u2019s Jake Gaudaur Veterans\u2019 Award in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clark also had to consistently prove himself when he took the field, first practicing with the team in 2009 as a territorial junior from the Regina Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a very young age when I first got into football, my dad looked at me and said, \u2018When you step on that field, you\u2019re the baddest man on the planet.\u2019 No matter where I came in, no matter when I was the 19-year-old kid that walked in the first time to practice with the Riders, I had the belief in myself I could overcome anything,\u201d Clark said. \u201cEverybody on this call knows I\u2019m not the most talented individual but I\u2019m going to give you everything I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCallum, who was inducted into the CFL\u2019s hall of fame in 2022, played for 24 seasons in the league, suiting up for the Riders in 13 of them. In 2001, McCallum kicked a 63-yard field goal for the Green and White, setting a new record for the Roughriders. During his time with the team, he kicked 29 field goals longer than 50 yards, and holds franchise records for punts (1,116) and punting yardage (45,670), while he\u2019s in second place in the team\u2019s record book for points (1,615) and field goals (368).<\/p>\n<p>The kicker was inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjme.com\/2022\/06\/21\/called-to-the-hall-mccallum-shivers-suitor-heading-into-canadian-football-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime flies by so fast. When things like this come upon me, I start to reminisce about the things that have happened in my career with the Riders. \u201d It\u2019s just an amazing journey I have been on and I\u2019m happy I get to share it with these guys,\u201d McCallum said.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second consecutive year that all inductees into the plaza of honour are Canadians, the team noted, and the first time since 2004 that all of the inductees have been Canadian players.<\/p>\n<p>Inductees are selected by a committee including former players, journalists, board members and the team\u2019s historian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s a lifelong friend and, ultimately, as I look back on my time in Saskatchewan, I like to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-617427","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\/617427","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=617427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}