Saskatchewan Roughriders sign American defenseman Tommy Stevens to extend the contract for two years.
The short distance specialist stands at six feet four inches and weighs 245 pounds. Played in 14 regular season games in 2025, gaining 183 yards on 50 carries and scoring five touchdowns. During the regular season, he had a first-down return on 33 of his 36 QB catches for a conversion rate of 91.7 percent.
Stevens returned from injury in the playoffs and scored two game-tying touchdowns in the 2025 Gray Cup victory, tying the single-game Gray Cup record set by Corey Sheets and Hero Simon in 2013.
Before moving to Saskatchewan, Stevens played three seasons with the Calgary Stampeders. He appeared in 52 games, gaining 685 yards on 160 carries and scoring 25 touchdowns.
Stevens was originally drafted by the New Orleans Saints with the 240th overall pick in the seventh round. in the 2020 NFL Draft. He spent most of the 2020 season on the team's practice squad after moving to tight end. He played one game for the Carolina Panthers, rushing for 24 yards, and later spent time with the New York Giants.
As a team, Stevens spent his senior season at Mississippi State, where he threw for 1,155 yards and 11 touchdowns and rushed for 381 yards and four touchdowns in nine starts. He transferred after three seasons to Penn State, where he caught 41 passes for 304 yards and four touchdowns through the air, recorded 76 carries for 506 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground, and caught 14 passes for 62 yards and two touchdowns.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders finished atop the West Division standings in 2025 with a 12-6 record, finishing first in the West Division for the first time since 2019. The team then defeated the Montreal Alouettes in the 112th Gray Cup in Winnipeg, the team's first championship in 12 years. Trevor Harris went 11-5 as a starter, throwing for 4,549 yards, 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
The Roughriders ranked second in net offense, second in net defense and third in turnover differential of plus eight. The club's leading rusher was AJ Ouellette with 1,222 yards, the leading receiver was KeSean Johnson with 1,159 yards, and the leading tackler was AJ Allen with 91 tackles. Saskatchewan ranked second in attendance with an average attendance of 28,427, up 2.7 per cent from the previous year.
