Saskatchewan Roughriders hire Andrew Harris as their running backs coach

Andrew Harris is backmost successful the CFL.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders hired the league’s all-time starring Canadian rusher arsenic their moving backs manager Monday.

The determination reunites Harris with Riders moving backmost A.J. Ouellette. The 2 were teammates with the Toronto Argonauts successful 2022-23, winning a Grey Cup their archetypal twelvemonth together.

That was the 4th CFL rubric of Harris’s illustrious CFL career. The 37-year-old Winnipeg autochthonal played 15 seasons with the B.C. Lions (2009-15), Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2016-19, 2021) and Toronto, winning Grey Cups with each 3 clubs.

The five-foot-11, 202-pound Harris is the CFL’s starring Canadian rusher with 10,380 yards (5.3-yard average) with 51 TDs. He besides recorded 607 catches for 5,489 yards and 32 touchdowns.

Harris is conscionable 1 of six players successful CFL past to ace the 10,000-yard rushing plateau and is Winnipeg’s sixth all-time starring rusher with 5,402 yards.

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Harris led the CFL successful rushing 4 times and was the league’s outstanding Canadian successful 2017. A five-time CFL all-star, Harris was named the Grey Cup’s apical Canadian and outstanding subordinate successful 2019, having besides earned apical Canadian honours successful 2011.

Before joining the Riders, Harris served arsenic manager of shot operations for the Canadian Junior Football League’s Vancouver Island, the aforesaid squad helium won nationalist championships with arsenic a moving backmost successful 2006, 2008 and 2009.

Harris replaces Anthony Vitale, who served arsenic Riders moving backs manager for 2 seasons but was incapable to instrumentality to the CFL nine for idiosyncratic reasons.