RIDERS SIGN WILLIE JEFFERSON
The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced international defensive lineman Willie Jefferson has signed with the team. As per club policy, details of the contract were not released.
Jefferson (6’6 – 245) will join the Riders after recently attending training camp with the NFL’s Washington Redskins where he played three preseason games.
The 25-year-old signed with Washington in January, 2016 after two standout seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos. The Beaumont, Texas native registered 43 defensive tackles, 10 quarterback sacks and 10 knockdowns in 35 regular season games.
Jefferson won his first career Grey Cup in 2015 with the Edmonton Eskimos.
The Stephen F. Austin product also played six regular season games with the Houston Texans after signing with the team as an undrafted free agent in April, 2013.
“We are excited to add a young player of Willie’s caliber and character to our team,” stated Riders General Manager and Head Coach Chris Jones. “Having coached Willie for two seasons I am well aware of his tremendous athleticism and work ethic. He is the type of player that can have an impact every play.”
Excellent signing!! The Riders Big Fix requires a better D-line.
Interm this season – one year – two year – three year contract? Young player, good/great aquisition.
"In Jones We Trust"
Take that Evil Empire!
This guy is a beast and will take care of one side. Now if they can find one for the other side. The building continues and we will be much better real soon.
You can have him our D-line is fine, Howard is back even giving us more depth at the line…we weren't going big on anyone except for Grymes which we now know you riders can't afford what we can offer him so enjoy. Also enjoy that you are eliminated from any chance of play-offs with two wins by the Green and Gold…always next year or go by your average for grey cups, so about 22 more years…Loserville haha
Whatever deadmonton
Sour grapes from the city of losers! They win one championship and think they're all that! In riderville we are used to winning. We win with class! Jones is ours and our future is bright! The eskimos have only just begun to circle the drain!!! FLUSH!!!
Sour grapes…quit drinking the Green Kool-Aide and think for a second. Your used to winning, really? 4 Grey Cups in 100 years I am proud of you guys. We win one championship? This is our 3rd also since 2000 and I know a certain green and white team that has only won two since 2000. Also on a side note we have 14 Grey Cups in the 100 years. Enjoy Jefferson, he is better then anybody you have there for sure but that doesn't take much…we are very happy with Sewell, Howard, Willis, Hunt, and Steele…that is what you call… Read more »
From Champs too Chumps…bad ha ha. The Riders are in the way up, The Shmos are on the way down.
Remember Rods prediction, the one that got Reilys panties in a knot. Turns out Rod was wrong about the Riders, but boy did he nail the Eskimos. Sad. Guess that's what happens when you lose your whole coaching staff.
Oh well, at least you have the Oilers…oops, sorry.
City of Mushrooms.
How many cups do you have since the salary cap was brought in? Better yet, how many division championships do you have since the cap was brought in? Playoff births since the cap was brought in? I rest my case. As usual, the jerk from alberts looks like the clown! You should find your own eskimos blog and stop attempting to troll real football fans… oh wait… do you yahoos even have your own blog?
Yeah and what does that say for your D when they could barely beat us twice and we win the last one !!!! And by the way the first game we should have beat you if not for our troubles with getting a yard early on. We will see you next year though and I'm gonna take great pride in our Riders beating the snot out of you scum Eskies ! City of Champions no more !
How come your looking at a couple pages of a 100 page book boys, because it is the only chapter that makes your riders llok good…so we go back to 2007 until present because that is when your team has been decent…how about we look through every page of the book, as an eskies fan I am not scared but you may be…on a side note be prepared to see the riders have been in 18 championship games in history and won 8, the eskies have 14 grey cups which makes you the chumps. You won one game against us… Read more »
also meant you won 4 lol.
How many Eskimos/Canadiens fans does it take to change a light bulb?
Two
One to change the light bulb and the other to ramble on incoherently about their glory days in order to make themselves feel better about recent failings.
Schmos fans,
Coming to a Rider blog to get their CFL, because nobody in Edmonton cares about the CFL. Sad more then anything.
Sounds like you have Lots a free time there Schmos fan…unemployed from the downturn in oil?
^^^ To the Schmo's fan up their. The scales aren't tipped evenly when reading that 100 page book. The Rider's were the first team from the west to even play in a Grey Cup, many of our Grey Cup losses come from this early time in the league (when it was actually 2 leagues) when the East had a dominant presence. The Schmo's had a golden age where they could and would pay anything for players and it paid off in Grey Cups, the Rider's on the other hand were a poor prairie team, clinging to life. If you take… Read more »
The Eskimo's have only been blown out in one game but yet have given games back to teams, if this team can play as they did against Calgary without a rb or fb in the second half or against B.C. you may think twice on them being eliminated quite quick from the east. Eskies do have the talent to fight for the chance of the Grey Cup
Mr Schmo… Riders 2014 were 8-2 until our QB went down. If not we probably would have gone pretty damn far.
Take Reily out of the Schmo's the rest of the year and see how you do.
Oh wait… he's playing and you still suck.
If your going to troll the ultimate football fans. Then Post your name Tweety bird. Or maybe you hide behind Anonymity because you have about the same size cojones as your teams. Little wee ones
You guys always have to cut everything short hey, uh since 2007 is what matters, we were 8 and 2 before Durant was hurt…cry me a river sports injuries happen and good teams make it work. If Reilly did go down and hope he doesn't we do have a very good back up in James Franklin and just so you know he is not a free agent next year so you guys can have fun with Gale. We suck coming from a team that has won like 16 games total in the past three years…Loserville with your 4 grey cups.
Hey no name Schmos fan. You brought up 2014 after we won the grey cup. I answered your dumb question. Name calling from a Schmos fan. So Edmontonish… Your team just lost to what you call Loserville. So what does that make you. A notch below for sure, so maybe Craperville. We still made it to the playoffs in 2014 without our starting QB for half the season. Lets see if you guys make it into the playoffs this year "with" your starter. I doubt it. So suggesting you will be just fine with Franklin just shows your football IQ.… Read more »
Hey bud we won the Grey cup last year with our Main quarterback gone for the first 10 games so tell me why Durant gone for half a season matters…hold on to all the excuses you rider fans can instead of facing the truth…I admit our team was pretty horrible from 2006 until 2013 hit and you want to talk about how good you are…first year in 2007 with a salary cap that Saskatchewan pretty much cried for and it was implemented you win the Grey Cup but not without cheating and going over the salary cap which you were… Read more »
Cheaters? That's rich coming from an eskimos fans! Campbell was the biggest cheater going when he was running your team! Countless tampering violations and fines for violating the collective bargaining agreements made by the league and CFLPA! You need to do some homework and work on that football iq of yours! Just like everyone else from Edmonton, you watch one game (or maybe even just the highlights) and suddenly you're an expert on the game and know everything! FYI: the riders were over the cap by like $1000… the allouettes were the team that truly abused the cap and they… Read more »