TORONTO — A career that started on the practice roster has earned Chad Owens a spot in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. The electrifying returner/receiver topped a stellar 2024 class announced Friday. Also named were players S.J.
TORONTO — A career that started on the practice roster has earned Chad Owens a spot in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
In 2012, Owens set a pro football single-season record of 3,863 combined yards to claim the CFL's outstanding player award. He also established career highs in catches and yards as Toronto downed Calgary 35-22 in the 100th Grey Cup before 53,208 spectators at Rogers Centre. Dressler, 38, played with Saskatchewan and Winnipeg , registering 715 catches for 10,026 yards and 61 TDs. The five-foot-seven, 168-pound Bismarck, N.D., native was the CFL's top rookie in '08 and a two-time all-star who made two Grey Cup appearances, winning in '13 in Regina with the Roughriders.
He suffered a serious knee injury early in 2016 but registered career highs in catches and yards the next season with Toronto. The Argos would win the Grey Cup, Green's third ."Those days were probably the most important of my career," Green said."I was able to sit back and listen to coach Trestman coach up AC , I was able to listen to him coach Ben Cahoon, Kerry Watkins and Jamel Richardson.
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