The Saskatchewan Roughriders are adding a local arm to their quarterback room this spring.<\/p>\n
The club will welcome Jake Farrell to training camp as part of the Canadian Football League\u2019s QB Internship program, giving the University of Saskatchewan Huskies pivot a chance to work alongside pros ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Farrell is one of nine U SPORTS quarterbacks selected for the initiative, which has been running since 2010 and is designed to give young passers exposure to the pro game through practices, meetings, and day-to-day life inside a CFL organization.<\/p>\n
For the Saskatoon product, the opportunity keeps him close to home while offering a first-hand look at what it takes to compete at the next level.<\/p>\n
Farrell appeared in seven games for the Huskies in 2025, throwing for 647 yards with a 61.1 percent completion rate and eight touchdown passes. He also took the reins as the starter in the 60th Vanier Cup, adding big-game experience to his resume heading into the internship.<\/p>\n
The program has proven to be a stepping stone for several quarterbacks who have gone on to CFL opportunities, including Tre Ford and Taylor Elgersma.<\/p>\n
League-wide, the 2026 class features quarterbacks from coast to coast, each assigned to a CFL club for the duration of camp. Along with Farrell in Saskatchewan, notable participants include Montreal\u2019s J\u00e9r\u00e9my Fyfe (Sherbrooke), Ottawa\u2019s Elijah Barnes (Carleton), and B.C.\u2019s Drew Viotto (UBC).<\/p>\n
The CFL preseason is set to begin May 18, with the regular season kicking off June 4 when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats host the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n
For Farrell, it\u2019s a chance to turn heads in familiar territory \u2014 and potentially put himself on the radar for a future in Riderville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders are adding a local arm to their quarterback room this spring. The club will welcome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[224145,224143,49,48,521,522,520,224144,4398,224142,1893,4397,4402,4401,4400,4399,82,4403],"class_list":["post-623536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-100-year-celebration","tag-620-ckrm","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-ckrm","tag-country-music","tag-countrys-greatest-hits","tag-radio","tag-regina-news","tag-reigna-pats","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sports","tag-sportscage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623536","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=623536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}