Noah Picton

Noah Picton (born July 5, 1995) is a Canadian football coach and former quarterback. He is currently the quarterbacks coach for the Regina Rams of U Sports football. He played college football for the Rams from 2014 to 2018 and is the all-time leading passer in U Sports history. He also won the Hec Crighton Trophy in 2016 and was named a first-team All-Canadian twice in his career.

University career Picton first joined the Regina Rams football program in 2013 where he dressed in one game while taking a redshirt season. During the 2014 season, he played in all eight regular season games and started in four of them as he split quarterbacking duties with Cayman Shutter.

In 2015, Picton started in all eight regular season games, completing 166 of 252 pass attempts for 2,134 yards with 10 touchdown passes and eight interceptions. The Rams finished winless in 2015 and did not qualify for the playoffs.

The 2016 season marked a tremendous turnaround for the Rams, largely due to Picton's outstanding play. He set a U Sports single-season record with 3,186 passing yards (since surpassed by Adam Sinagra) and led all players that year with 25 touchdown passes with a 69.3% completion percentage. He also had the second-highest number of completions in U Sports history in a single season with 224.

In the following year, he again started in all eight games and completed 207 passes from 301 attempts for 2,491 yards with 19 touchdown passes and nine interceptions. He sat out the last three games of the 2018 season with a foot infection to finish his U Sports career with that same number. The Rams had to forfeit three wins due to use of an ineligible player and did not qualify for the playoffs in 2018.

Professional career

Picton signed as an undrafted free agent with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL) on May 14, 2018, but was released after training camp and returned to the Regina Rams. Following the conclusion of his record-setting 2018 U Sports season, Picton re-signed with the Argonauts on December 16, 2018, to a three-year contract. He played in one pre-season game for the Argonauts on May 30, 2019, and attempted one pass. He was released on June 1, 2019.

Coaching career On December 11, 2019, it was announced that Picton had joined the Regina Rams as the team's quarterbacks coach for the 2020 season.