Trevor Harris Turns 40 Ahead of Rider Game Today Opener
Trevor Harris turns 40 just before rider game today, and he says age will not be what slows him down as the Saskatchewan Roughriders open against the B.C. Lions on Saturday night. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. EDT at Mosaic Stadium, where the first test comes in a rematch of last year’s Western Final.
Trevor Harris and 40
Harris said the questions about his age have followed him for years, but he does not see 40 as a cutoff. “The movie 300, the Spartan warriors, elite warriors, they served until they were 60, so 40 is not that old,” he said, adding with a chuckle, “Maybe I’m just saying that because I’m 40 now.”
He also pushed back on the idea that his decline is tied to birthdays. “I’ve been preparing for this stage of my career for the last 10 to 15 years, and so I’ve told people over the last three or four years, five years, that age will not be what makes me decline. It won’t be a physical decline. It’ll be when I want to be done. That’s what I hope. Maybe someday they’ll believe me, but I’m not holding my breath on that.”
Grey Cup MVP Form
The numbers behind that argument are strong. In 2025, Harris completed 348 of 473 passes for 4,549 yards, 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. He finished with a 73.5 percent completion rate.
He was named Grey Cup MVP last season and set a new CFL championship record with an 85.2 percent completion rate in the title game. Harris said that run reinforced what he already felt about his game: “It’s something that I feel just continues to burn bright, and no more evidence of that than last year when we won the Grey Cup, and I didn’t really change how I felt about my career up to this point. I just like to play ball, and so I think I just took that and really verified what I’ve always known about myself.”
Mosaic Stadium Test
The opener gives Saskatchewan an immediate read on its quarterback at 40, in his 14th CFL season and 17th year as a professional. Harris called football one of his “superpowers,” saying, “I think that’s one of my superpowers. I just like to play ball, and I like to be the quarterback, I like to lead, and I like to be a part of something bigger than myself. That’s a candle that burns bright, no matter what, and I don’t think it’s one that dwindles down and has nothing left in it,”
That leaves the Roughriders with a simple first-night measure: whether the veteran who just led them to a Grey Cup can start another season at the same level against the B.C. Lions, with the Western Final rematch arriving before September is even underway.
