Darian Durant\u00a0compared\u00a0Trevor Harris to Canadian Football Hall of Famer\u00a0Ricky Ray.<\/p>\n
“I think when you look at Ricky Ray, his ability to dissect defences, they don’t have the biggest arms in the world, so they use major anticipation \u2014\u00a0they know where their guys are going to be. I look at them\u00a0very similar in what they’re able to do,” Durant told\u00a0Brendan McGuire on the SportsCage.<\/p>\n
“Ricky played such a long time\u00a0and Trevor will play a long time because they’re so accurate because they have a command of offences. Ricky Ray is the first guy that comes to mind when it comes to being able to be a field general and\u00a0being able to put the ball where you want to put it every play.”<\/p>\n
Ray played 16 years in the CFL from 2002 to 2018, split between the Edmonton Eskimos, now known as the\u00a0Elks, and the Toronto Argonauts. During Ray’s\u00a0time with the Argos\u00a0from 2012 to 2018, Harris was his teammate for four seasons and\u00a0they won a Grey Cup\u00a0in their first year together. After the 2015 season, Harris left Toronto to go to the Ottawa Redblacks in free agency.<\/p>\n
Harris<\/a> has been with the Riders since 2023. This year is\u00a0his 14th in the CFL. This season, the six-foot-three, 212-pound quarterback has started four games for the Green and White, completing 72 percent of his passes for 1,418 yards, 10 touchdowns, and two interceptions.<\/p>\n Focusing on the Riders\u00a0next game, they\u00a0host\u00a0the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on\u00a0Sunday. Hamilton’s starting QB\u00a0Bo Levi Mitchell was injured in the team’s\u00a0previous game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, suffering\u00a0an ankle injury in the third quarter. The Ticats\u00a0lost the game 14-13 with\u00a0Tre Ford and Jake Dolegala both playing quarterback.<\/p>\n Historically, Ford has not\u00a0lost against Saskatchewan when he was originally with Edmonton according to 3DownNation<\/a>. Ford’s first time playing Saskatchewan as a starter came\u00a0in 2023<\/a> in Week 15,\u00a0the Riders lost 36-27. The following year, the Roughriders\u00a0lost to Edmonton 42-31 in Week 9.<\/p>\n “Tre has had a lot of success playing in Saskatchewan. The crowd won’t be a factor.\u00a0The way the Riders play defence,\u00a0for quarterbacks who can hold the ball, who can run around and buy time, it definitely makes it a lot easier for guys to come open down the field. I think you saw that in Edmonton, and if the Riders come with the same game plan, I think you’ll see Tre try to extend plays with his legs to try to allow the big play to happen downfield, and that’s usually when it happens,” Durant said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen guys are in zone, they’re looking in the backfield. You usually play on the timing. DBs usually break on footballs with the timing feeling like the defensive lineman can get there in a certain amount of time. But when you’re playing against a guy like Tre Ford, there’s no sack that he can’t escape from. He’s very dangerous against a defence like this. So the Riders definitely have their work cut out for them this week.\u00a0He’s had a lot of success playing at Saskatchewan,\u00a0I think that the Riders have to be well prepared and don’t let this be a trap game for them.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darian Durant\u00a0compared\u00a0Trevor Harris to Canadian Football Hall of Famer\u00a0Ricky Ray. “I think when you look at Ricky Ray,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[3878,49,48,521,522,520,3290,4398,27684,27683,1893,4401,27682,4400,4399,82],"class_list":["post-786979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-agriculture","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-contests","tag-country-music","tag-gx94","tag-manitoba-news","tag-radio","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-news","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786979","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=786979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}