Saskatchewan hasn’t even finished sweeping up the confetti from Sunday’s Grey Cup championship and already the hottest topic in Riderville is the future of quarterback Trevor Harris.
And who can blame anyone for asking?
Fresh off one of the finest statistical seasons of his 13-year CFL career and a record-setting performance on the biggest stage, the 39-year-old pivot is suddenly the centre of every offseason conversation. Harris completed 85 percent of his passes in the title game, the highest mark ever recorded in a Grey Cup. It was a masterclass effort from the Waldo, Ohio native, capped by a Grey Cup MVP nod and the fifth championship in Roughriders history.
But if Rider Nation had its way, Harris’ story in green and white wouldn’t be anywhere close to finished.
Chants echoed across Regina during Tuesday’s Grey Cup parade, with thousands of fans packed shoulder-to-shoulder around the provincial legislature.
“One more year! One more year!”
Harris smiled as the crowd pushed the volume higher and higher.
“I appreciate it, thank you guys so much for making this moment special,” he said. “This is your moment as well. We’ve always had the best fans in the league and now we’ve got the best dang team in the league to match you guys.”
For a QB who has embraced Saskatchewan as much as the province has embraced him, the emotion was unmistakable.
Harris didn’t shy away from acknowledging what this team may still become and if anything, he leaned right into it.
“This is our fifth title, but something we’ve never done is go back-to-back,” he told the crowd. “So let’s go ahead and start talking about that. Let’s run it back next year. Rider Nation, it’s our time.”
If the Riders plan to chase history, Harris believes the organization already has the foundation for it.
“Anytime you got Corey Mace, J.O. (Jeremy O’Day), Kyle Carson and Larry Dean, you’re always going to have a chance at going back-to-back,” he said. “I’ll sit down with J.O. at some point probably this week. Then I’ll talk to my wife and go from there.”
Despite his age and the significant leg and knee injuries that cost him time during his first two seasons in Saskatchewan, Harris showed no hesitation when it came to questions about his physical readiness.
“It’s not a physical deterioration thing,” he said. “I’ve said for a long time, it won’t be because of a physical reason (why I retire).”
After missing stretches in 2023 and 2024, Harris bounced back this year with remarkable durability, starting 16 of 18 regular-season games in his third year in green and white.
He’s said repeatedly that there is “a lot of tread on his tires.”
Harris is set to become a free agent in February, though he’s expressed many times that he wants to retire as a Saskatchewan Roughrider.
Rider Nation will wait, hopeful the chants that shook downtown Regina on Tuesday become the rallying cry for 2026.
“One more year!”
Harris hasn’t ruled it out.
