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• Defensive back Justin Cox is the new regime’s best find. He gives the Roughriders a premier shut-down defensive back.

• Wide receiver Caleb Holley is another fine addition. Despite a pair of dropped touchdown passes, he is an impressive target and someone who keeps improving. In three games, Holley has 22 receptions for 266 yards. Those stats extrapolate to 132 receptions for 1,596 yards over an 18-game regular schedule. Holley also caught his first CFL touchdown pass Sunday during a 28-25 loss to the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers, against whom he made 10 receptions for 121 yards. Included was a diving, 44-yard grab that made TSN’s highlight reel.

• More calculations: Naaman Roosevelt, who has 70 receptions for 974 yards in 10 games with the 2016 Roughriders, is on pace to eclipse two franchise single-season records. Roosevelt will finish with 126 receptions for 1,753 yards if he maintains his current rate of production. The standards are currently owned by Don Narcisse (who had 123 catches in 1995) and Joey Walters (who amassed 1,715 receiving yards in 1981, during a 16-game season).

• Even more fun with numbers: The Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ Zach Collaros is third in the league in touchdown passes this season despite having played in only four games. Mike Reilly of the Edmonton Eskimos and Bo Levi Mitchell of the Calgary Stampeders are tied for the lead with 17 scoring tosses, three more than Collaros.

• The University of Regina Rams’ Noah Picton is also capable of posting some eye-popping stats. On Friday, Picton passed for 471 yards and rushed for another 108 during a 41-39 double-overtime loss to the host Saskatchewan Huskies. Picton and the Rams are preparing for Thursday’s must-see home opener against the Manitoba Bisons. The game is to begin at 7 p.m., on Taylor Field.