The Saskatchewan Roughriders had a new running back on the field as the team returned to practice this week, but it was incumbent A.J. Ouellette getting reps with the starting offence.

After Ouellette suffered a head injury in last Thursday’s Week 1 victory against the Ottawa Redblacks , the Roughriders signed veteran CFL running back Ka’Deem Carey, who was released by the Toronto Argonauts following training camp this year.

However, ahead of Day 1 of practice, Ouellette cleared concussion protocol and appears ready to play this week when Saskatchewan (1-0) visits the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (0-1) on Saturday (5 p.m., TSN, CTV) in Week 2 of the CFL season.

“For us, you want to err on the side of the player, so he went through the process,” Roughriders head coach Corey Mace said on Tue

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