Professional Career
Owens was cut by the Jacksonville Jaguars after his NFL debut against the Indianapolis Colts where he muffed 3 punts. He was re-signed to the Jaguars' practice squad a few days later.
Playing with the Jaguars in his first pre-season game of the 2006 season, Owens caught a 62 yard pass and made his first NFL touchdown.
Owens was signed to the Jaguars' practice squad Nov 8, 2007 and moved to the active roster Dec 28, 2007. He played in the regular-season finale at Houston, but misplayed a punt in the 42-28 loss. Owens was again waived by the Jaguars as of January 11, 2008.
Owens played for the Colorado Crush of the Arena Football League.
On July 14, 2009, Owens signed a practice roster agreement with the Montreal Alouettes. He was released on October 1. He was re-signed to the practice roster on October 8.
On June 24, 2010, the Toronto Argonauts acquired Owens from the Alouettes in exchange for a fourth round pick in the 2011 CFL Draft.
On November 25, 2010, Owens was named the most outstanding special teams player in the Canadian Football League for the 2010 season. Owens was a unanimous selection after leading the CFL in punt, kickoff, missed field goal returns and all-purpose yards and finishing tied for the league lead in return touchdowns (four). He became just the fifth player in league history to have over 1,000 punt and kick return yards in a season. In his second full season in Toronto Chad became the first player in professional football to record at least 3,000 combined yards in back to back seasons.
On November 1, 2012, in the final regular season game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Owens set the all time record for all-purpose yards in a single season, surpassing Pinball Clemons' 1997 total of 3,840 yards. Owens did so with a 29 yard kickoff return halfway through the 2nd quarter. He finished the season with 3863 all-purpose yards, setting not only a CFL record, but also a professional football record as well.
On November 22, 2012, Chad won the CFL Most Outstanding Player award finishing ahead of Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish in voting conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada as well as the eight CFL head coaches. On November 25, 2012, Chad and his Argonauts finished the 2012 season with the 100th Grey Cup Championship.
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