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REGINA — Breathe a sigh of relief, RNation.

While the contract of quarterback Trevor Harris expires following the 2017 season, he says he will be an Ottawa Redblack well beyond that.

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Here’s what Redblacks GM Marcel Desjardins had to say on Wednesday: “We’d like to have him under contract, but we don’t control the whole dynamic. If his agent right now is not willing to have that discussion in a way that works for us, I can’t do anything about it.”

Doesn’t sound good, right?

But Harris, participating in the Mark’s CFL Week event, later said, “We’ll get it done. I love Ottawa. When I came to Ottawa, I said I wanted to spend the rest of my career there. We’ll figure it out.”

Of more immediate concern is the 2017 season, when Harris, after playing in the shadow of Henry Burris during a Grey Cup-winning season, will go into training camp as the clear-cut No. 1 guy.

“I’ve had Ricky Ray behind me and I’ve had Hank behind me,” said the 30-year-old Harris. “It’s not like I had Joe Schmoe behind me. So if you struggle for two or three series, people will start looking around and think, ‘Hey, we have a Hall of Famer on the bench right now.’ So this is an opportunity for me.