{"id":73021,"date":"2025-08-16T02:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73021\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T02:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:05:07","slug":"riders-qb-trevor-harris-believes-saskatchewan-receiver-dohnte-meyers-can-play-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73021\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders\u2019 QB Trevor Harris believes Saskatchewan receiver Dohnte Meyers can play in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saskatchewan Roughriders’ quarterback Trevor Harris believes\u00a0second-year\u00a0receiver Dohnte Meyers<\/a>\u00a0could garner\u00a0NFL looks after the\u00a02025 CFL season.<\/p>\n

“It’s possible, but if I’m still playing, I don’t think he should go to the NFL,” Harris joked with Rider Broadcast Network analyst Justin Dunk. “I think there are a lot of guys on our team that could\u00a0and I’m of the belief that the great players in our league are fringe NFL guys anyway. It’s a matter of opportunity. A lot of the guys in the locker room have spent time in NFL locker rooms. If you’re able to get into a room, I think it’s a matter of being in the right situation at the right time.”<\/p>\n

Meyers and his teammate\u00a0KeeSean Johnson have identical receiving yards through eight\u00a0games so far this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re great\u00a0and I think they’re within inches of each other in terms of yards on the season, they are both at 565.\u00a0I think they’re both very capable of getting to the 1,200,\u00a01,300 mark.\u201d Harris explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re fortunate to have those guys,\u00a0they’re gonna continue to do great things.\u00a0You’ll see games here and there where they’re gonna go for 180 or 200 and a couple touchdowns. I think that the league will continue to get more and more excited about those two guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Riders are 7-1 and sit\u00a0first place in the West Division. According to Meyers, the team’s record has\u00a0helped him and the Green and White’s\u00a0confidence level.<\/p>\n

“I would say it’s grown because of the team product we’ve been able to put out there, winning reinforces the confidence,” Meyers explained to voice of the Riders Dave Thomas. “Also, something that we’ve been preaching with coach [Corey] Mace is conviction over confidence. He says that confidence waivers but conviction, regardless of the outcome, you know who you are. I feel like that starts with the work that we put in during the offseason. Also in training camp, going against our defence, going against the players that are all-stars and have been proving themselves and have had success, it gets us to this point where we’re at now.”<\/p>\n

Meyers explained how he and Johnson have similar traits.<\/p>\n

“We pride ourselves on being very competitive,” Meyers said. “We compete in everything, whether it’s on the field or off the field, it’s a little brotherly competition.”<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Meyers has started eight games for Saskatchewan in 2025, recording\u00a035 receptions for 565 yards with\u00a0four touchdowns. He\u00a0occasionally returns\u00a0for the Riders. Against\u00a0Montreal,\u00a0he returned the opening kick-off\u00a046 yards.<\/p>\n

“A lot of times, coach Kent [Maugeri] allows us to be playmakers and to be ourselves,” Meyers said. “If I see green grass, I’m going to run to it, and that was the opportunity on that play.”<\/p>\n

This match-up between the Riders and the Ticats will be the second time the teams\u00a0face\u00a0each other.\u00a0The first time was in Week 2, when the Green and White won\u00a028-23.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to be assignment sound and we have to capitalize on plays when it’s time for them to be made,” Meyers said. “They’re a good defence, they fly around,\u00a0they play hard. We have to make sure we play our brand of football, physical, fast\u00a0and explosive.”<\/p>\n

The last time Saskatchewan came back from a bye week, the team\u00a0was\u00a0defeated by the Calgary Stampeders 24-10 in Week 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I feel like coach Mace set that tone our first day back,” Meyers said. “Whether it’s in the film room, on the field, extra practice, the intensity and the focus,\u00a0making sure that’s what was done.\u00a0We learn from it and we don’t repeat it.”<\/p>\n

The Green and White host\u00a0Hamilton at home on Saturday. Teagan Witko, Justin Dunk and Wes Cates bring you the pre-game show at 10 a.m.\u00a0Dave Thomas and Luc Mullinder have the game call at 1 p.m. You can\u00a0listen to or watch extensive coverage\u00a0on the 620 CKRM Co-operators Rider Broadcast Network.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders’ quarterback Trevor Harris believes\u00a0second-year\u00a0receiver Dohnte Meyers\u00a0could garner\u00a0NFL looks after the\u00a02025 CFL season. “It’s possible, but if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,45109,82],"class_list":["post-73021","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-nflcflsaskatchewan-roughriderstrevor-harrisdohnte-meyers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73021","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=73021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}