{"id":108269,"date":"2025-08-30T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:30:07","slug":"edmonton-elks-add-first-round-global-draft-pick-richard-jibunor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108269\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks add first-round Global draft pick Richard Jibunor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Elks have\u00a0signed defensive lineman\u00a0Richard Jibunor.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 230-pound defender was selected by the Elks in the first round (third overall) in the 2025 CFL Global Draft in April.<\/p>\n<p>The linebacker\/edge player spent four seasons at Troy University from 2020-2023 where the product of Delta State, Nigeria suited up for 50 games with the Trojans. At Troy, Jibunor recorded 174 total tackles, 46 tackles-for-loss, 30 sacks, three interceptions, and forced nine fumbles. Jibunor\u2019s accolades include being named to the All-Sun Belt Third Team every season from 2020-2022, while being named to the All-Sun Belt First Team in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old\u00a0 finished his college career with the fourth most tackles-for-loss (46) and sacks (30) in Troy Trojans history. Prior to his transfer to Troy, Jibunor was a four star recruit by the Auburn University Tigers, where he recorded eight tackles and two sacks as a freshman.<\/p>\n<p>Jibunor would go unselected in the 2024 NFL Draft, but would accept an invite to Seattle Seahawks Rookie Camp in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Elks have\u00a0signed defensive lineman\u00a0Richard Jibunor. The 6-foot-3, 230-pound defender was selected by the Elks in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-108269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}