Saskatchewan Roughriders’ rookie Daniel Wiebe scored his first career CFL touchdown in Week 4 against the Toronto Argonauts, but he does not want to rest on his laurels.<\/p>\n
“I’ve definitely pictured it; I’ve wanted to play pro ball for as long as I can remember,” Wiebe told\u00a0the media. “So growing up in Sask, it’s what you want to be doing.\u00a0To be able to do it means a ton\u00a0and I want to keep building.”<\/p>\n
The Riders lost\u00a0to Toronto 40-34\u00a0and Wiebe finished the game with two receptions for 48 yards and one touchdown. Due to injuries to James Letcher Jr. and then Samuel Emilus, he\u00a0had the opportunity to return two punts for 19 yards.<\/p>\n
Wiebe handled\u00a0punt returns\u00a0for the University of Saskatchewan\u00a0from 2021 through 2025. He recorded 71 punt returns for 688 yards and two kick returns for 40 yards in his time with the Huskies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That type of versatility is why Riders\u2019 special teams coordinator Kent Maugeri is a fan of Wiebe. He\u00a0discussed his two punt returns against Toronto.<\/p>\n
“I tell you what, he’s tough, and there’s some kids, you just know\u00a0it’s not going to be too big for him at all. He’s ready\u00a0and he’s going to do something special,” Maugeri<\/a>\u00a0told Teagan Witko and Dave Thomas on the SportsCage.<\/p>\n “You can put him on the cover team; his versatility is great for me, especially as his special teams coach.\u00a0I could have him block, I could have him run, I could have him tackle and return. He’s smart, tough and dependable. We need more guys\u00a0just like him.”<\/p>\n His former Huskies teammate, Nick Wiebe,\u00a0now his teammate with the Riders could not have been happier for Wiebe’s touchdown.<\/p>\n “I mean my phone was blowing up after the game. Everyone’s congratulating him for a touchdown\u00a0and I wasn’t even on the field for it. But it was pretty cool to watch Dan,” Nick told\u00a0Dave Thomas.<\/p>\n “I’ve spoken about it before in the media as well; I don’t think it’s surprising to anybody who’s been around him, who’s seen the kid work, who knows how locked in\u00a0he is\u00a0on football. So not surprising to anybody who knows him, but an awesome moment for the kid.”<\/p>\n Saskatchewan travels to Ottawa to take on the Redblacks on Friday.\u00a0The Rider\u00a0Broadcast Network has the pre-game show at 2:30 p.m. Dave Thomas and Luc Mullinder have the game call at 5:30\u00a0p.m. You can either watch the stream or listen on the 620 CKRM Co-operators Rider Broadcast Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders’ rookie Daniel Wiebe scored his first career CFL touchdown in Week 4 against the Toronto Argonauts,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772287,"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-772286","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\/772286","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=772286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}