REGINA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks are still searching for their first victory of the CFL season after a 42-20 loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Redblacks are now winless in eight games this season and have a 14-game regular-season losing streak dating back to the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Ottawa\u2019s last regular-season victory was a 34-33 win over the B.C. Lions on Sept. 5, 2025. After that win, the Redblacks lost their final six games of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
The defending Grey Cup champion Roughriders improve to 6-2 with the victory.<\/p>\n
Ottawa had a 14-13 lead early in the third quarter, but the Riders responded with three straight touchdowns to take control of the contest. Rookie receiver Dylan Djete scored his first CFL touchdown on a 18-yard reception from Roughriders’ quarterback Trevor Harris. KeeSean Johnson connected with Harris on a two-point conversion to give the Riders a 21-14 lead.<\/p>\n
Tommy Stevens, Saskatchewan\u2019s short-yardage specialist, sealed the victory with three touchdown runs, scoring from one yard, five yards and seven yards. Stevens, who scored three rushing touchdowns in last week\u2019s 28-26 victory over the Edmonton Elks, leads the CFL with 11 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Harris, who completed 30 of 38 passes for 401 yards, became the 12th quarterback in CFL history to break the 40,000-yard mark in career passing yards. He now has 40,352 career passing yards and is 182 yards behind Tracy Ham (40,534) for 11th place.<\/p>\n
Anthony Calvillo is the CFL\u2019s all-time career passing yardage leader with 79,816 yards.<\/p>\n
The teams exchanged touchdowns in the first half, with Ottawa\u2019s Bryson Barnes scoring on a one-yard plunge and Johnson grabbing a five-yard scoring pass from Harris. Johnson, who had eight receptions for 107 yards in the half, caught seven passes for 97 yards on Saskatchewan\u2019s final two possessions before the break.<\/p>\n
Johnson\u2019s touchdown catch, coming with seven seconds left in the half, gave the Riders a 13-6 lead.<\/p>\n
Justin Hardy, on a 23-yard reception, and Keelan White, on a seven-yard catch, also had touchdowns for Ottawa.<\/p>\n
Redblacks: Visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday, Aug. 14.<\/p>\n
Roughriders: Visit the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday, Aug. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REGINA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks are still searching for their first victory of the CFL season after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-850526","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\/850526","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=850526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}