{"id":87222,"date":"2025-08-21T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87222\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:09:08","slug":"riders-keesean-johnson-and-dohnte-meyers-proving-to-be-a-dynamic-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87222\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders KeeSean Johnson and Dohnte Meyers proving to be a dynamic duo"},"content":{"rendered":"

For KeeSean Johnson<\/a> and Dohnte Meyers,<\/a> the competition doesn\u2019t just stop on the field.<\/p>\n

The two Saskatchewan Roughrider wide receivers aren\u2019t just teammates, they\u2019re roommates as well this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both got close last year, but I stayed with Jerreth Sterns<\/a>, and he stayed with someone else. We just knew in the offseason we got close and we talked throughout the offseason and when it came time to come back up here and find somewhere to stay, it just made sense for us,\u201d Meyers said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s also led to them competing with each other in almost every aspect of life, which has helped them on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only going to make us push harder from week to week each week because we hold ourselves to a high standard,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIf we push each other in the room, that\u2019s only going to push each other on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competitions at home started organically between the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we got here, we started going to the grocery store and started cooking and it\u2019s just a friendly competition with both of us messing around and having fun with it,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

So, who is the maestro in the kitchen between the two? That depends on who you ask.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to go with me,\u201d Johnson said when asked who was the better cook.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to be me,\u201d Meyers said.<\/p>\n

When it comes to video games, the two split the series, but that depends on what game is being played.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to first-person shooter games and things like that, that\u2019s me,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cWhen it comes to (the NCAA video game) and sports games, that\u2019s him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two have also found themselves on the opposite teams in a long-running game of spades with two other receivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy partner is Sam Emilus<\/a>, and his partner is Dhel Duncan-Busby.<\/a> And me and Sam are up right now, but it gets real competitive,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cIt\u2019s rolled over from last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the field, the two are nearly neck-and-neck when it comes to the stats.<\/p>\n

Johnson currently sits fifth in receiving yards with 682, while Meyers is not far behind him with 641 yards (seventh in the league).<\/p>\n

Meyers does hold the edge in touchdowns over Johnson by a five-to-three margin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel happy for each other and want the other to have success,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

There is some trash-talking going on as well, but Johnson said that applies to everyone on the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it\u2019s the defence against the offence or the offence against the offence, if we lose a rep, we will talk trash to each other so the next one they will go out and try that much harder to win,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Both will look to continue to add to their season totals on Saturday when the Riders are in Calgary to take on the Stampeders. Kickoff for the game is set for 5 p.m. The Green Zone pregame show<\/a> begins at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Stamps are the only team to beat the Riders this season, winning 24-10 at Mosaic Stadium on July 12.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe let the fans down at our home stadium,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking to go out there to Calgary and redeem ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For KeeSean Johnson and Dohnte Meyers, the competition doesn\u2019t just stop on the field. The two Saskatchewan Roughrider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-87222","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\/87222","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=87222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}