Hall of Fame
Randy Chevrier, a three-time Grey Cup champion, was the first McGillian to be drafted by a National Football League team. Originally from St. Leonard, Que., Chevrier (B.Ed. '01), currently resides in Calgary, where he had a prolonged career as a pro football player with the Stampeders and as a firefighter with the local fire department. He played pro football for 16 seasons, starred on the gridiron at McGill and graduated with a physical education degree in 2001. He began organized football as an 18-year old at Vanier College in Montreal and went on to play five seasons with McGill, from 1996 to 2000, collecting 27 football-related awards during his university career, including the Forbes Trophy as McGill male athlete of the year in 2000-01. He played 40 regular season games with McGill and recorded 157 tackles, including 10 quarterback sacks. The first player in school history to receive the prestigious J.P. Metras Trophy as the most outstanding lineman in the nation (2000), he was one of two Canadian university players selected to participate in the 2000 East-West Shrine game, a showcase designed for graduating NCAA seniors.
The 6-foot-2, 270-pound defensive lineman and long-snapper was also the first McGill player to be selected in the NFL draft, a seventh-round pick by Jacksonville in 2001. He was also chosen fifth overall by Edmonton in the CFL Draft. Chevrier had NFL playing stints in Dallas and Cincinnati, in addition to a season in NFL Europe with the Barcelona Dragons. He followed that by playing 204 career regular season CFL contests, with stops in Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatchewan. In 2014, Chevrier was awarded the Stamps' Herm Harrison Memorial Award and the CFL Player Association's Tom Pate Memorial Award for outstanding sportsmanship and contribution to his team and community. Chevrier hung up his cleats after the 2016 season, to become a firefighter.
