‘I won’t be playing anywhere else’: pending CFL free agent Mitchell Picton hopes to stay …

Regina native Mitchell Picton is a pending CFL free agent and hopes to stay with his hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders. “I won’t be playing anywhere else, I’ll tell you that much,” Picton said on the SportsCage. “We’ll see what happens in the new year. I’m getting up there a little bit in age. We’ll see what the new year brings.” The Riders have some decisions to make at the receiver position: KeeSean Johnson, Dohnte Meyers, Joe Robustelli, Samuel Emilus, Kian Schaffer-Baker, Shawn Bane Jr., Tommy Nield and Picton are pending free agents. Saskatchewan won their fifth Grey Cup when the Green and White beat the Montreal Alouettes 25-17. That win for Picton was the first Grey Cup in his CFL career. Picton elaborated on where he wants to take the Grey Cup. “Getting it over to the clubhouse at the U of R for the Rams guys. I was letting the guys that are gonna be leaving town and going back home, let them do their thing with the cup, have their time,” Mitchell said. “I’m here all winter, so we’ll have lots of time to get it out to the places that I want to get to.” The six-foot-one,197-pound receiver dressed 14 games for the Riders, he caught 20 passes for 226 yards. When reflecting on the
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