Harrison with the Argonauts in 2022
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| Saskatchewan Roughriders | |
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| Position: | Offensive line coach |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | (1984-11-18) November 18, 1984 (age 39) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight: | 314 lb (142 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Houston (TX) Westbury |
| College: | Colorado |
| Undrafted: | 2008 |
| Career history | |
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| * Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |
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| CFL status: | Import |
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Edwin Charles Harrison (born November 18, 1984) is the offensive line coach for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a former professional gridiron football guard who was a member of the Calgary Stampeders and the Kansas City Chiefs. He won a Grey Cup championship with the Stampeders in 2014. He played college footballatColorado.
On January 19, 2022, it was announced that Harrison had joined the Toronto Argonauts as the team's running backs and quality control coach.[1] He won the 109th Grey Cup in his first year with the team and was with the Argonauts for two years.
On January 15, 2024, it was announced that Harrison had been named the offensive line coach for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.[2]
Harrison is the grandson of former Outland Trophy winner and CFL offensive lineman Cal Jones, who was one of five players from the 1956 East-West All-Star Game killed when their Vancouver to Calgary plane, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, crashed into Slesse Mountain, killing all 62 people aboard. Harrison's search to learn more about the life and death of his grandfather and his family history is at the centre of the 2012 documentary The Crash of Flight 810, part of TSN's Engraved on a Nation series of eight documentaries celebrating the 100th Grey Cup.[3][4]
