Riders happy with their 2023 CFL Draft | 24CA News
The Saskatchewan Roughriders acquired the man they needed with their third general choose within the 2023 CFL Draft, in UBC defensive finish, Lake Korte-Moore, and that pattern continued during the draft, because the Green and White stocked up on high quality draft picks via all eight rounds.
Korte-Moore had been on the staff’s radar for a while, and was somebody they had been very impressed with eventually 12 months’s East-West Game.
“We thought he was just a dominant player in that game, he looked like he was playing at a different speed. We just see a lot of value in him and what he can bring to us,” mentioned Riders General Manager Jeremy O’Day.
Korte-Moore is equally excited to go well with up for his new staff.
“It’s an honour and it’s been a dream of mine to get drafted since I was a kid, and now I can’t wait to get to work and get to be in Saskatchewan with the great fan base that they have there. And I told the coaches that I’m undefeated at Mosaic and I want to keep it that way this year,” mentioned Korte-Moore.
For their subsequent choose, Saskatchewan went native, deciding on Regina Rams security, Jaxon Ford.
The Campbell Tartan alum is the grandson of former well-known Rider participant and GM Al Ford, and the youthful Ford talked about his grandfather when talking to the media about being drafted to his hometown staff.
“It’s been a dream of mine since I was nine years old, seeing a picture of my grandpa catching a touchdown at the old Mosaic there, I think that’s when it all kind of… when the dream came to reality,” mentioned Ford.
With their third-round choice, the Riders went with linebacker Matt Dean out of York University, he tallied 90 tackles and two interceptions throughout his four-year collegiate profession, and can be a part of a deep linebacker room which already consists of the likes of Derrick Moncrief, Larry Dean and Micah Teitz.
Saskatchewan grabbed their first offensive participant of the draft within the fourth spherical, deciding on Thomas -Bertrand-Hudon from Delaware State University. O’Day had excessive reward for the again, evaluating him to a former Rider legend.
“This would be high praise but he’s kind of like a Neal Hughes back in the day. Hughesy was very dynamic in that he could do pretty much everything, so I don’t want to put a label on him but he’s a similar player to Neal and a guy that can do multiple things,” mentioned O’Day.
In the sixth around the Riders picked Sidy Sow, an offensive guard from Eastern Michigan, earlier than grabbing one other O-lineman within the seventh, in Queen’s offensive guard Evan Floren, whom O’Day mentioned the Riders had a excessive analytics grade on.
“He’s someone that definitely has the athletic ability and the size that could develop into a CFL lineman,” O’Day mentioned.
With their closing choose within the eighth around the Riders chosen lineman Tavius Robinson from Ole Miss, and previously of Guelph University.
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