Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga standout Jacob Huesman will continue his football career with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The 6-foot-2, 228-pound quarterback, a senior in 2015, signed Saturday night after meeing with the Canadian Football League team earlier in the week.
A two-time Football Championship Subdivision All-American and three-time Southern Conference offensive player of the year, Huesman passed for 8,197 yards and 64 touchdowns while running for 4,051 yards and another 43 scores in his four seasons with the Mocs. Some of the UTC passing records he broke belonged to former McCallie School standout B.J. Coleman, who's also on the Roughriders' roster and was Huesman's predecessor at quarterback for the Mocs.
Huesman had tryouts with the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans in recent weeks after going undrafted this spring.
Saskatchewan finished 3-15 in 2015, missing the playoffs for only the second time since 2002. That led to a coaching change, with former South Pittsburg High School and UTC standout Chris Jones taking over as head coach, general manager and vice president of football operations in December. Jones coached the Edmonton Eskimos the past two seasons and led them to a Grey Cup victory last year, their CFL-record 11th championship but first since 2005.
Saskatchewan's linebacker coach, Phillip Lolley - also on Jones' Edmonton staff - was head coach at Alabama's North Jackson High School from 1988 to 1998, winning a state title during that span.
The Roughriders began training camp Sunday at the University of the Saskatchewan's Griffiths Stadium in Saskatoon.
The team's first preseason game is June 11 against the British Columbia Lions.
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