Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Ka’Deem Carey remembers being a rookie practice roster player with the Calgary Stampeders back in 2018 and noticing a young defensive line coach with a magnetic energy about him.

“Seeing him get after the defence and how he got the best out of his players is something I always admired,” Carey said this week of Corey Mace, now his head coach in Saskatchewan.

“He was always one of my favourite coaches. I would never tell him that or anything, but the way he handled his players and the way he got the best out of them…the defensive players would say nothing but great things about him – inside the meeting rooms and outside the meeting rooms.”

Mace remembers Carey as a talented young runner who showed early glimpses of star potential.

“Everything about him is infectious,” he said. “His personality, the guy’s smile, anything from that nature. He loves the game…our guys have the ultimate respect for the kind of [running] back that he........

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