RIDERS TAKE A PASS ON COX

SASKATOON – Following Tuesday’s Day 3 of Roughriders Training Camp, Head Coach & GM Chris Jones announced the team will NOT be re-signing free agent defensive back Justin Cox.

Cox was found not guilty of a Domestic Violence charge on Monday and expressed his desire to return to the Riders, the team which cut him in April after the news of the charge surfaced.

Jones said as a father of a daughter, and the same goes for Rider Assistant GMs Jeremy O’Day and John Murphy, they all agreed they couldn’t bring Cox back simply “on principle”.

Meanwhile, from the Canadian Press:

REGINA – The commissioner of the Canadian Football League says a former Saskatchewan Roughrider still can’t play in the CFL even though he was found not guilty of assault causing bodily harm.

Commissioner Jeffrey Orridge says the acquittal of Justin Cox does not change the position of the league.

The Riders released Cox when he was charged after an alleged domestic dispute in April and the CFL also said he would no longer be allowed to play in the league.

On Monday, a provincial court judge in Regina found Cox not guilty and said there was no evidence to support the charge.

Cox said after the trial that he hoped to resume his football career with the Roughriders.

Riders general manager and head coach Chris Jones shut down that idea at training camp Tuesday, saying Cox won’t be back with the team and calling it a matter of principle.

(The Canadian Press)