Roughriders bring back Gainey for 2020 season

Ed Gainey will be back patrolling the secondary for the Saskatchewan Roughriders next season.

The CFL team announced Thursday it has signed the 29-year-old defensive back to a one-year contract extension, keeping him with the team through the 2020 campaign. He was eligible to become a free agent Tuesday.

A product of Winston-Salem, N.C., Gainey is entering his fifth season with the Roughriders and ninth in the CFL. Gainey played in all 18 regular-season games for the Green and White in 2019, recording 56 tackles and two interceptions.

Gainey has played in 114 career CFL games and has accumulated 272 tackles, 34 special-teams tackles, one sack, 20 interceptions, four touchdowns and four forced fumbles.

He was named a CFL all-star in 2017 and 2018 and was the Roughriders’ nominee for the CFL’s most outstanding defensive player award in 2017 after a 10-interception campaign.