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It’s been a half-decade since Rob Bagg surveyed the wreckage: Three knee surgeries, rehab piled onto rehab, months and seasons on the shelf.

Bleak? Yes. But Bagg’s conclusion was different. Football, he decided, was still very much in his future, despite the many onlookers who expected that he’d never resurface on a CFL field.

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That’s why Bagg is hustling through his 11th training camp this week, in his 10th season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a survivor through and through.

“I’m sure none of the other players give two craps about it, but it’s something I take pride in,” Bagg — who played his first CFL game in 2008 — said Tuesday when asked about his new-found role as the longest-serving Roughrider.

He’s watched the Roughriders shed good friends through the years: Darian Durant, Weston Dressler, Chris Getzlaf, and on, and on, and on.

“The torch gets passed,” says Roughriders’ receivers coach Markus Howell. “Those guys leave, the locker room changes, but Rob’s the constant.”