{"id":789013,"date":"2026-07-08T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789013\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:51:08","slug":"former-roughrider-charleston-hughes-to-be-inducted-into-canadian-football-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789013\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Roughrider Charleston Hughes to be inducted into Canadian Football Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charleston Hughes, a former star for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, will be inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame this fall.<\/p>\n

Hughes, a six-time CFL all-star, led the league in sacks over five seasons \u2013 two with the Riders \u2013 and won Grey Cups with the Calgary Stampeders in 2008 and 2014.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet\u2019s go!\u201d Hughes exclaimed when Corey Mace, the Riders\u2019 head coach, called him to share the news. \u201cIt\u2019s about time!\u201d<\/p>\n

The defensive end from Saginaw, Michigan, played for the Riders in 2018, 2019 and 2022, recording 35 of his 136 career sacks while wearing green. In 2019, he was named Saskatchewan\u2019s most-outstanding defensive player.<\/p>\n

\u201cA dominant force throughout his career, Hughes registered 33 forced fumbles, three interceptions and three defensive touchdowns in 202 regular-season games,\u201d the Saskatchewan Roughriders said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo of the touchdowns were scored for Saskatchewan \u2014 on fumble returns in 2018 and 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old defender was also well known for his surfing celebrations<\/a>, pretending to ride a wave on the turf after sacking the opposing quarterback.<\/p>\n

Hughes is to be inducted into the hall of fame at a ceremony in Hamilton on September 17<\/a>, the team said. He\u2019ll be the 39th former Rider to join the hall, and will be joined by Brandon Banks and Sean Millington at his induction this fall.<\/p>\n

The final three members of the hall\u2019s 2026 inductee group will be announced \u201cin the coming weeks,\u201d the Riders noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charleston Hughes, a former star for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, will be inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-789013","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\/789013","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=789013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}