‘Hoping maybe I dreamed it:’ Roughriders head coach says McKnight is a tremendous loss
Joe McKnight had gone through a lot of career highs and lows before he landed with the Roughriders, but his head coach believed he was turning the corner – set to finally reach his full potential.
“We had every plan to have him back, and every talk I had, he certainly wanted to be back,” Jones said Friday morning from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
But those plans are no longer. The 28-year-old running back was shot dead after a traffic dispute in a Louisiana suburb Thursday afternoon.
“I woke up this morning hoping maybe I dreamed it,” Jones said.