CFL legend Doug Flutie sure sounds like a fan of Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Trevor Harris.
Harris passed Flutie for 10th on the league’s all-time passing list earlier this month, but the six-time Most Outstanding Player came on the SportsCage without any resentment and with his figurative pompoms on.
“Keep staying healthy and keep moving up the list,” Flutie said in support of Harris as well as injured Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ Bo Levi Mitchell, who moved ahead of him in August 2025.
“I love it. That’s longevity. That’s guys slinging it around, staying healthy, consistency. There’s years where it feels easy and you’re throwing for 300 (yards) a game, and then there’s other years where you’re nicked up and you’re fighting it. These guys are veteran quarterbacks. They’ve been through the mix.”
Then Flutie added a quick comment with a laugh and in good fun.
“I will say this: I only played eight years up there.”
According to Flutie, Harris is part of a contingent of high-end pivots in the CFL. The 40-year-old Harris is one of a handful players of who’ve increased the overall quality at the position.
“The quarterback play is way up,” Flutie said.
The Canadian Football Hall of Famer also discussed about some of the rule changes coming to the CFL for next season.
Host Barney Shynkaruk asked Flutie for his thoughts about the goalposts moving to the back of the end zone, the field length shrinking to 100 yards, and the depth of the end zone going to 15 yards.
“I think they’re trying to Americanize the game a bit more to fit it into other stadiums to have the ability to expand the league a little bit,” Flutie said. “I do like the goalposts in the back because it is easy to get into field-goal range, especially at the end of a game and you’ve got the ball with 40 seconds left and you’re starting at your own 35.
“Make that a little tougher. It might eliminate the single a little more.”
Having lost ground on the all-time passing list to Harris this season and Mitchell a year ago, Flutie couldn’t help think about how one of the rules could help his standing in another area.
Flutie throwing 48 touchdowns during the 1994 campaign is the high-water mark for quarterbacks.
“What it could do is secure my touchdown-pass record; shorten that end zone and make it a little tougher to throw touchdown passes,” he said. “Maybe my touchdown mark will hold up a little longer.”
