RIDER MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYERS
MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER
First nomination as Riders Most Outstanding Player…has played 15 regular season games…registered 1,598 yards and 12 touchdowns on 287 rush attempts…added 264 yards on 37 receptions…totaling 1,862 yards from scrimmage…began the season by recording six straight 100-yard games and has tied a franchise record with nine overall…named CFL Offensive Player of the Week twice this season…second straight season surpassing 1,000 yards rushing…last Roughrider to win Most Outstanding Player was Kerry Joseph in 2007.
CHRIS GETZLAF
MOST OUTSTANDING CANADIAN
Second career nomination as Most Outstanding Canadian…unanimous selection…has started 17 regular season games at receiver…has 63 receptions for 1,045 yards and seven touchdowns…second career 1,000 yard season…was named CFL Canadian Player of the Week once this season…the last Rider to win Outstanding Canadian was Andy Fantuz in 2010.
BRENDON LABATTE
MOST OUTSTANDING OFFENSIVE LINEMAN
First nomination as Riders Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman…Fourth career nomination as he was named Winnipeg Blue Bombers Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman in 2011, 2010, 2009… has started in 17 regular season games at guard…last Roughrider to win this award was Gene Makowsky in 2004 and 2005.
TYRON BRACKENRIDGE
MOST OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYER
Second consecutive nomination as Riders Most Outstanding Defensive Player…has started all 17 regular season games at safety…has 47 defensive tackles, six special teams tackles, five pass knockdowns, three interceptions, and two tackles for loss…leads league with five forced fumbles…last Roughrider to win Outstanding Defensive Player was John Chick in 2009.
LEVI STEINHAUER
MOST OUTSTANDING ROOKIE
Selected by the Riders in the fifth round (40th overall) of the 2013 Canadian Draft…unanimous selection as Riders Most Outstanding Rookie…played 13 regular season games…registered 11 special teams tackles and two forced fumbles…spent time as long snapper…last Roughrider to win Outstanding Rookie was Weston Dressler in 2008.
RICKY SCHMITT
MOST OUTSTANDING SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER
First nomination as Riders Most Outstanding Special Teams Player…has played in all 17 regular season games…has totaled 5,821 yards on 129 punts for a 45.1 yard average (net: 4,833 yards/37.5 average)…adding a league leading 5,131 yards on 79 kickoffs (64.9 average) …Corey Holmes won this award in 2002 and 2005.
The players were selected by voting members of the Football Reporters of Canada (FRC) and the CFL head coaches.
Labatte will win the West nominee.
All the others had good years but will be beaten out.
Anon 1 could very well be right. Anxiously awaiting for the complaint department to leave their comments on here.
Riders will be shut out. Although the guy is great, our o-line has not been good enough to warrant Labatte selection….it will be someone off of Calgary line that wins the west nominee and likely league honours…maybe even Jones.
Schmitt over Milo?
Our O-Line has not been good enough?
Kory Sheets can finish with 1800 yards and Darian Durant has been lights out this year.
Our O-Line when healthy is top notch.
Obama
In other CFL news: Sean Whyte was fined for comments about officials.
You know officiating is atrocious when a kicker makes comment on it!
The Woz,
You are so negative, a REAL RIDER FAN would never say such things!
Hey don't you know? Woz goes to all the games, that means he's more of a fan than the rest of us are. And entitled to more of an opinion as a result.
Riiiiight
I agree with Obama plus we've given up the 2nd least sacks
Jones will win rookie of the year. Most defininetely could have been the league's best team's nominee for the o lineman of the year. Led the Calgary o line to a 1st place finish, least sacks against, most rushing yards and captained the offence through three quarterbacks who were in and out regularly. The kid is a stud!
At the best, when stacked against Calgary and Toronto and maybe BC now, the Riders are a mediocre team. Outside of Getzlaf, not one of them is a star. And Getzlaf has no chance against Cornish. Not a single Rider will win from here on in. It says a lot. And, there will be no coach of the year from Saskatchewan this year.
For one of the few times I have to admit I agree with Woz 100%. Our Oline has been horrible the 2nd half of the season and no way Labatte has any chance to win.
Darian Durant has been lights out this year says Obama? Wow! I must be watching a different QB than you the last 8 games. He must of been really lights out in the last Calgary game to of racked up so many first downs in the 1st half!
Team Outstanding Players don't put themselves ahead of the team.
Congrads to most the nominees, however for the one that couldn't shut his mouth on game day, you don't get my vote.
Go Darian Durant – you should of been the one!
Go Riders!!!
Above anon: the season is 18 games long not 9 games so not a chance in hell Durant was even a consideration to voters.
Sox last won the World Series in 2007, the Riders…
Durant has been playing lights out…
Ya I have to agree he looks like he's playing in the dark…
The Rock
Waiting for Woz to come back on and go off on a tangent defending himself. His whole argument that you HAVE to be at every game to be a good fan is a joke. My family has had season tickets for 45 years and I had to move away long ago for work… Too bad that automatically made me a shitty fan. After this week we are all 0-0, I don't care if we win zero league awards. We need to regroup and come out big against BC. Where we are right now I'm glad we don't have a bye…… Read more »
Statistically Durant has been better than any season Lancaster ever had. And his INTs are much lower than Austin and Burris' most successful seasons. Potential for 12 wins out does all of them too. Leads league with 31 TD passes plus we have a running back with 12 TDs.
Not sure how much more a guy can do?
Here are Durant’s numbers that are very telling of the Riders season
21 TD passes to 1 Int over the first 8 games played (missed 1 game in Hamilton)
10 TD passes to 11 Int over the last 8 games
I’d like to hear how Durant deserves the MOP nomination with the last 8 game performance?
He was the second least sacked QB prior to the last Calgary game, after which he is the 3rd least sacked QB.