SASKATOON - - Saskatchewan Roughriders fan favorite Charleston Hughes is again in Saskatchewan after spending final season with the Toronto Argonauts.
“Simply figuring out that I can go someplace the place I used to be snug, going someplace the place I do know they'll use my skill to the absolute best and I do know I can provide them my all,” stated Hughes on the choice to return again to Saskatchewan.
“They know what they will get from me each single play.”
Hughes returns to the Riders extremely motivated, recording simply two sacks in 9 video games with Toronto, after back-to-back seasons of main the league in that class with Saskatchewan (15 in 2018, 16 in 2019).
The 38-year-old says he and the Argonauts weren’t a “excellent match."
“I do know it'd come off to different individuals as if I am beginning to decline or my recreation is beginning to fall off, however I am precisely the place I wish to be,” he stated.
“I did not fall off. I wasn't as much as me, the explanation why I had a foul season, so it is a kind of issues the place I come out right here, present what I do, present the staff what I do greatest, and allow them to resolve.”
Head coach Craig Dickenson expects Hughes to earn a beginning spot on the line of defense, enjoying 30 to 40 performs a recreation.
“He is a frontrunner, he is bought loads of road cred, and although he hasn't performed with a few of these guys on the [defensive] line, all of them know who he's,” stated Dickenson.
“Charleston has at all times been one of many hardest staff on the staff and he labored actually laborious this offseason to get in form and to get his physique the place it wanted to be, and he I assumed he regarded good for his first day trip.”
Defensive position coach Ben Olson says the addition of Hughes is nearly like including one other coach onto the sector.
“Charleston's bought extra expertise than any [defensive] lineman on this league,” he stated.
“We've got a bunch of men with their second yr or rookie yr, so Charleston brings all kinds of expertise to this group that we are able to actually construct off of.”
Hughes enters this season with 132 profession sacks, simply 25 behind the CFL’s all-time chief Grover Covington, and he feels he can nonetheless play at a excessive stage.
“Once I was coaching this offseason and I did not inform anyone my age, verybody thought I used to be 28,” he stated.
“Once I inform them I am 38 they requested “How within the hell are you continue to enjoying soccer?””
And his signature “browsing” sack dance may even be returning to the inexperienced and white.
“I can not wait to whip it up,” he stated.
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