Riders Morning After: Secondary has no answers for Elks’ Cody Fajardo

Riders Morning After: Secondary has no answers for Elks’ Cody Fajardo

The most hyped game of the CFL season sure lived up to its billing. This one was an instant classic. Eight lead changes. A combined 896 total passing yards by two veteran, gunslinging quarterbacks. A final-play, long-distance, game-winning field goal. The only problem for the Saskatchewan Roughriders on that last part is that it was Edmonton Elks’ Vincent Blanchard who booted a 57-yard attempt down the middle as the clock expired on Thursday nig…

Riders Morning After: Secondary has no answers for Elks' Cody Fajardo

The former Riders quarterback picked apart the Saskatchewan defence to the tune of a career-high 510 yards passing and four touchdowns. Only seven of Fajardo’s 32 pass attempts were incomplete.

Blanchard’s 57-yard field goal lifts Elks to win

A career night from quarterback Cody Fajardo and a clutch field goal from Vincent Blanchard has put the Edmonton Elks into the driver's seat of the CFL's West Division.

Gotta See It: Elks walk off Roughriders with 57-yard field goal

Watch as Edmonton Elks kicker Vincent Blanchard drills a 57-yard field goal in the final seconds vs. Saskatchewan to seal a 36-34 victory over the Roughriders and lift Edmonton to a CFL-best 6-1 record.