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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Riders And Ti-Cats Make Trade

The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced today they have acquired import defensive lineman Jermaine McElveen from the Hamilton Tiger Cats.

McElveen (6’4 – 265) will be entering his sixth CFL season as he joins the Riders for the 2013 season. The University of Alabama-Birmingham product spent the 2012 season with the Hamilton Tiger Cats where he appeared in 15 regular season games totaling 31 defensive tackles and led the team with six quarterback sacks.

Prior to joining Hamilton, the 28-year-old spent four seasons with the Montreal Alouettes. In 68 career CFL regular season games he has totaled 109 defensive tackles and 24 quarterback sacks.

McElveen is a two time Grey Cup champion having won with the Als in 2009 and 2010.

In exchange, the Riders sent import wide receiver Lyle Leong Jr. to Hamilton. The Abilene, Texas native was set to enter his first CFL season after signing with the Riders in January, 2013.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lyle's time in Riderville was certainly not Leong.

Anonymous said...

Good one. Better than reading a lot of the other commenters crap that shows up here. Especially the crap coming out of Cliff Claven's/ Obama mouth.

Anonymous said...

Thank you Football God (Mr. Kent Austin) for sending help Saskatchewan's way.

Anonymous said...

So does McElveen coming mean no Chick or does Alford leaving mean there is room for Chick?

Anonymous said...

Jackson might have been the best d-back we had for a while last year. He'll show up with someone else.

Anonymous said...

Who is Lyle Leong and what does Austin see in him to want him?

Anonymous said...

Taman gets something of value for nothing. This could be like the Fulton trade last year. Still the man gets nothing but negativism thrown his way by some of the so-called "experts"

Anonymous said...

Give head coach Cory Chamblin credit for Initiating this trade, Taman ????

"experts"