By The Numbers: Ricky Ray

TORONTO — The 2022 class for the Canadian Football Hall of Fame was announced on Tuesday.

Former Edmonton and Toronto quarterback Ricky Ray headlines an incredible list of inductees for this year.

The induction into the CFHOF culminates the hard work of Ray’s 16-year career and cements his status as one of the league’s all-time greats.

Here is a by the numbers look at the career of Ray.

Ray started his career with the Green and Gold, playing for nine season in Edmonton. After not playing in his first two seasons with Edmonton, Ray left to pursue other opportunities in football. However, his return to Edmonton in 2005 marked the start of a long and bountiful career in the CFL for Ray.

In seven season as the quarterback for Edmonton Ray recorded three seasons of 5,000 or more passing yards, while breaking the 5,500 yard threshold twice. His 2008 season with 5,663 is Double E single season record.

Ray would eventually become Edmonton’s all time leader in, completions (3,225), yards (40,531) and touchdowns (210).

Ray earned two of his four Grey Cups with Edmonton, in 2003 and 2005. In the 2005 Grey Cup win Ray set a Grey Cup record, completing 35 of his 45 passing attempts and was named the game’s MVP.

Ray was the league’s leader in passing yards four times in his career, leading the league three times with Edmonton in 2006, 2008 and 2009.

YEAR	TEAM	GP	COMP	ATT	YDS	TD	INT	AVG
2002	EDM	18	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
2003	EDM	18	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
2005	EDM	18	473	713	5510	25	24	7.7
2006	EDM	18	406	618	5000	21	18	8.1
2007	EDM	13	311	445	3652	22	10	8.2
2008	EDM	18	422	605	5663	26	17	9.4
2009	EDM	18	401	596	4916	22	12	8.2
2010	EDM	17	288	448	3565	11	16	8.0
2011	EDM	18	343	526	4594	24	11	8.7

Ray chose to join the Toronto Argonuats for the 2012 season and stayed in Toronto for the following seven seasons. Ray officially announced his retirement in May of 2019.

The now Hall of Fame quarterback enjoyed success with the Argonauts, winning two Grey Cups in 2012 and 2017. He also finished his career as an Argo with three seasons of over 4,000 yards, including another season where he was able to throw more than 5,500 passing yards.

Ray earned CFL all-star honours three times in his career, doing so in back-to-back years with the Argos in 2013 and 2014. The 2014 season marked the first time in his career where Ray had finished as the CFL’s passing touchdown leader.

In July of 2017, Ray passed Doug Flutie, with 16,634 yards to become the all-time passing leader for Toronto. That marked the second time in his career he had become a teams’ all-time passing yards leader.

YEAR	TEAM	GP	COMP	ATT	YDS	TD	INT	AVG
2012	TOR	14	321	468	4059	20	11	8.7
2013	TOR	11	234	303	2878	21	2	9.5
2014	TOR	17	425	620	4595	28	15	7.4
2015	TOR	9	47	65	423	2	1	6.5
2016	TOR	9	222	298	2397	15	6	8.0
2017	TOR	17	474	668	5546	28	11	8.3
2018	TOR	2	34	54	307	0	1	5.7

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