reminded the Regina media on Thursday<\/a>. \u201cLittle did we know that Jorgen eventually became the longest-standing Roughrider of our 2025 Grey Cup team.\u201d<\/p>\nIt is difficult to imagine Hus wearing any other shade of green, but the Saskatoon native\u2019s CFL rights were initially held by Edmonton after they took him in the fourth round of the 2013 CFL Draft. After he spent two seasons bouncing around the NFL, the Riders elected to get aggressive in bringing him home, shipping away Watson and a second-round pick to acquire Hus and a third-round pick.<\/p>\n
The Riders had no long-term attachment to Watson, as the Concordia product had been obtained in a trade with Winnipeg just a few months previous, but he was a proven commodity and ended up playing five more seasons as a productive starting pass catcher in the CFL. Fans rarely watch long snappers and had a tough time understanding the decision, especially when the Riders went 3-15 and Taman was fired. However, Saskatchewan had known for some time that Hus could be special.<\/p>\n
\u201cShortly after I retired from football, I remember scouting one of my first games. It was actually a Rams game in the old Mosaic, and I remember coming back into the stadium and saying, \u2018The Rams, they have a heck of a long snapper,’\u201d O\u2019Day recalled of the University of Regina product. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that was a good thing or not that I pointed out that the Rams had a really good long snapper, but it was really evident that Jorgen was very good at what he did, and we spotted him very early on in his career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hus\u2019 decade-long career with the Riders matched that first evaluation. He suited up in 177 games and sent the ball spinning backwards a total of 1,935 times, never getting noticed for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of walked around the building asking my staff and people who have been here for a while if they ever remember a bad snap from Jorgen, and none of us can recall a time where the snap influenced the kick or the punt in a negative way,\u201d O\u2019Day said. \u201cNow he\u2019ll probably say differently, because he\u2019s a perfectionist, but I don\u2019t recall ever being in a game saying, \u2018Oh, that was a bad snap. We missed that one.\u2019 He was just very consistent. I guess you could say he finished his career being perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n
True to O\u2019Day\u2019s prediction, Hus wouldn\u2019t go that far, citing a singular example of an erroneous snap from his illustrious tenure in Riderville.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had one that wasn\u2019t very good. It was high. (Punter Josh) Bartel had to go up for it, and then him and Brett (Lauther) were lateraling it back and forth all the way till mid-field,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAt the time, it was obviously not funny, but we\u2019ve had some good laughs about it since. I think it\u2019s actually been deleted from Rider history, like it never came up.\u201d<\/p>\n
At 36 years old, Hus\u2019 streak of incredible efficiency could have continued. O\u2019Day all but begged him to stay, even joking that he could still change his mind during the retirement announcement, and quarterback Trevor Harris put a bug in his ear about chasing history with back-to-back Grey Cups.<\/p>\n
However, the budding mortgage broker has known for two years that his time was coming to an end, and a championship was the only thing left to accomplish.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew we had unfinished business here. I loved what Coach Mace has done here with this team and the culture, and I knew we had a really good chance of winning, and so it wasn\u2019t too hard to want to come back last year. But, during last season, I knew that it was probably going to be my last year,\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019ve got stuff outside football pulling me away. I had a surgery too, so that doesn\u2019t help, but I think the decision was made before that. It\u2019s been a long, fun career. It\u2019s been over a decade. We won the Grey Cup. We\u2019re champs. My cup is full.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hus leaves a lasting legacy on the field, as well as off of it, as he\u2019s long been one of the most active Riders with the team\u2019s charitable foundation and won the Jake Gaudaur Trophy in 2024 for his strength, perseverance, courage, comradeship and contribution to Canadian communities. The team may never find another snapper worthy of paying such a high price tag.<\/p>\n
\u201cJorgen is very much widely known as one of the best snappers in the CFL,\u201d O\u2019Day summarized. \u201cMaybe one of the all-time greats for the Riders and possibly in the CFL.\u201d<\/p>\n
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J.C. Abbott is a University of British Columbia graduate and high school football coach. He covers the CFL, B.C. Lions, CFL Draft and the three-down league’s Global initiative.<\/p>\n
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