Next year the Victoria Day long weekend will kick off the Canadian Football League (CFL)\u00a0but on Monday the preseason began with the Saskatchewan Roughriders against the Calgary Stampeders.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Stampeders\u00a0emerged\u00a0victorious over the green and white\u00a020-15.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the most part, the\u00a0Roughriders rested their starters for the game. Jack Coan got the start at quarterback in place of Trevor Harris and was 9\/15 with 98 passing yards and an interception.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tommy Stevens saw limited action behind\u00a0centre\u00a0and was 2\/4 with 11 passing yards and added five yards on the ground.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Former University of Hawaii quarterback Brayden Schager saw most of the action at quarterback. He was 10\/18 with 139 passing yards with 41 rushing yards with a touchdown.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jonathon Kim was 2 for 2 in field goal\u00a0attempts with his longest coming from 45 yards.\u00a0Alex Hale was 1 for 2\u00a0as he connected from 28 yards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mathew Sexton led Roughrider receivers with 5 receptions for 78 yards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defensive back Juju Hughes led Saskatchewan with 6 defensive tackles along with a special\u00a0teams\u00a0tackle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Roughriders will conclude the preseason on Saturday when they host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Griffiths\u00a0Stadium in Saskatoon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Saturday\u2019s game, the Roughriders\u00a0won\u2019t\u00a0see live game action until their 2026 season opener, when they welcome the BC Lions to Mosaic Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan\u00a0received\u00a0a bye in Week 1.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next year the Victoria Day long weekend will kick off the Canadian Football League (CFL)\u00a0but on Monday the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-680326","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\/680326","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=680326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}