{"id":110222,"date":"2025-08-31T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110222\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:25:07","slug":"linebacker-adam-bighill-to-make-stampeders-debut-in-labour-day-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110222\/","title":{"rendered":"Linebacker Adam Bighill to make Stampeders debut in Labour Day game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY \u2014 CFL all-star linebacker Adam Bighill will make his Calgary Stampeders debut exactly one year after a major knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Bighill has been activated for Monday&#8217;s Labour Day game in Calgary against the Edmonton Elks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Bighill, who has won the CFL&#8217;s Most Outstanding Defensive Player award three times in his career, was signed to Calgary&#8217;s practice roster in June after six years with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>Bighill was instrumental in helping the Blue Bombers end a 28-year Grey Cup drought in 2019 and in winning another in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He had season-ending knee surgery after injuring his anterior cruciate ligament in Winnipeg&#8217;s Labour Day weekend game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Bombers released him in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 CFL all-star linebacker Adam Bighill will make his Calgary Stampeders debut exactly one year after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[62376,49,943,48,521,522,520,62377,13264,60448,82,7504],"class_list":["post-110222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-adam-bighill","tag-ca","tag-calgary-stampeders","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-defensive-player-award","tag-edmonton-elks","tag-labour-day","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110222","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=110222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}