‘A piece of the puzzle’: Saskatchewan Roughriders excited for future with Trevor Harris at the helm | 24CA News

Trevor Harris has formally landed in Saskatchewan.

“We are just excited,” Jeremy O’Day, the final supervisor of the Saskatchewan Roughriders mentioned. “We are not trying to put all the pressure in the world on Trever Harris. We’re bringing him in to be a piece of the puzzle.”

The 36-year-old quarterback signed a two-year take care of the Riders on Tuesday, the primary day of CFL free company.

O’Day mentioned Harris will convey a excessive stage of consistency, accuracy throwing the ball and management within the locker room.

“You’re looking for a good football player, right? But you’re also looking for a good person, someone that’s high in character, and someone that’s had success in our league.”

O’Day mentioned Harris is already making an influence on attracting different free brokers, together with gamers not even within the league.

“He certainly helped us in the process with talking to players and even players that aren’t even in the CFL yet – he’s willing to give them a call,” O’Day mentioned. “He hasn’t even been in the building yet and he’s recruiting for us.”

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The Riders additionally signed Harris’s former teammate, American receiver Jake Wieneke.

“We wanted to bring someone Trevor was familiar with. (Wieneke’s) only 28 years old and he was fired up to come here.”

And for the Riders, probably the most necessary areas to deal with was the offensive line, after the workforce gave up essentially the most sacks within the CFL final season.

Offensive lineman Philip Blake and centre Peter Godber have been each signed Monday, and the acquisition of one other centre leaves questions on Dan Clark’s future.

“We’re very open with Dan that we were going to pursue other offensive linemen in there. I think there’s still a conversation that we have to have with Dan to let them know where we’re at coming out of free agency.”

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When requested if there’s a probability Clark resigns with the Riders, O’Day mentioned, “I’d never say there’s not a chance. But I would say going into camp, I think it’s highly unlikely.”

Clark who was born in Regina, has been with the Riders since 2009 and has performed in 131 regular-season video games.

On the opposite aspect of the ball, the Riders are prone to lose their greatest participant from final season – Darnell Sankey.

“I don’t think there’s going to be an opportunity for Darnell (to come back),” O’Day mentioned.

The 28-year-old led the CFL in tackles the previous two seasons.

And whereas free company news will proceed, O’Day expects most signings for the Riders now will likely be so as to add depth, moderately than big-name star gamers.

“A lot of the heavy lifting is done,” he mentioned. “I know everyone wants every position to be solidified when you’re going into training camp and always have an answer … but we also have to do a good job of bringing in new players.”

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