REGINA \u2014 Mounties say Saskatchewan Roughriders player Jayden Dalke was driving on the wrong side of a highway, with alcohol and cannabis in his SUV, when his vehicle crashed into another, killing himself and a second driver.<\/p>\n
RCMP say 30-year-old Dalke of Leduc, Alta., and 22-year-old Bhishma Rajyaguru from Regina died in the Saturday night crash on Highway 11 near Lumsden, northwest of Regina.<\/p>\n
There were no passengers in the vehicles. Mounties say autopsies and toxicology tests would be done in the investigation.<\/p>\n
Lumsden’s fire department said it responded to a crash about 9 p.m. and found one vehicle in the median of the divided highway and the other in a ditch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They said other motorists stopped and tried to revive one of the men.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the Roughriders held a news conference to remember Dalke.<\/p>\n
The linebacker was a sixth-round pick in the 2022 CFL draft out of the University of Alberta. He appeared in 68 career regular-season games, registering 69 tackles, 31 special-teams tackles, three forced fumbles, an interception and a sack.<\/p>\n
Dalke appeared in all 18 regular-season games for Saskatchewan in 2025 as well as the West final and the club’s 25-17 Grey Cup win over the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n
“Jayden was a loved teammate,\u201d said Roughriders general manager Jeremy O\u2019Day. “You never left the conversation with Jayden where you didn’t feel happy.<\/p>\n
“He loved what he was doing, loved the game of football, loved his teammates.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REGINA \u2014 Mounties say Saskatchewan Roughriders player Jayden Dalke was driving on the wrong side of a highway,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-814780","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\/814780","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=814780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}