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The Saskatchewan Roughriders have added two coaches to their staff following the recent departure of J.C. Sherritt, who last season was in charge of the CFL team’s linebackers and run-game defence. New Edmonton head coach Mark Kilam hired Sherritt as the Elks’ defensive co-ordinator.
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Travis Brown, a long-time assistant who coached Sherritt for his final 2018 season playing with Edmonton, is Saskatchewan’s new linebackers coach.
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Josh Donnelly, a former quarterback who spent last season as offensive co-ordinator for the University of Regina Rams, has been added as an offensive assistant.
Brown spent the past six seasons with the B.C. Lions before head coach Buck Pierce was recently hired and began assembling a new staff. Two of Brown’s players won CFL awards in 2021, when Bo Lokombo was the league’s top Canadian and Jordan Williams the top rookie. Brown played two seasons with the Ottawa Redblacks before coaching at his alma mater, Fresno State, for two seasons and joining the Elks for 2018-2019.
Donnelly missed playing his final season of university football in 2022 because of injury before joining his alma mater as Regina’s passing game co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach. After one season on the Rams’ staff, he was promoted to offensive co-ordinator in 2024 and helped the team advance to within one game of qualifying for the Vanier Cup.
The rest of the Riders staff remains intact for 2025, with second-year head coach Corey Mace retaining extra duties as defensive co-ordinator and Joshua Bell coaching defensive backs while overseeing the passing-game defence. Bell was interviewed during the offseason by the Redblacks, who instead took William Fields from the Toronto Argonauts to be their defensive co-ordinator.
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