EDMONTON \u2013 While quarterback Tre Ford has already found his admirers among the Green and Gold faithful, it\u2019s his (slightly) older brother Tyrell who is now looking to make a name for himself in Edmonton.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t a situation where a brother is trying to emerge out from under his other brother\u2019s shadow, Tyrell has already shown how dominate a player he can be in the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old is fresh off a 2024 season where he finished second in the CFL in interceptions with seven, earning All-CFL honours for his ball hawking ways. Tyrell is already a legitimate star in the league, now he\u2019s ready to prove why he should be just as popular as his quarterback brother in the city of Edmonton.<\/p>\n
And he\u2019s going to do it starting one fan at a time.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Coming to Edmonton) has been good,\u201d Ford said. \u201cI\u2019ve already had a couple of good interactions. I remember I was coming into work one morning and I always get my Tim Hortons. This one guy, he was nice, and he waved me by and let me go. So, I paid for his coffee. Then when he was driving away, he threw the hand up and waved. So, it\u2019s a good city to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On the field, Tyrell is already adjusting well to both a new system and a new colour of jersey. The change in threads shouldn\u2019t be that difficult for the cornerback with 4.42 speed. Ford spent most of 2023 as a member of the Green Bay Packers, so the Green and Gold already suits him just right.<\/p>\n
When it comes to the change in system, the J.C. Sherritt defensive playbook also seems to fit Ford like a glove.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new playbook is a lot of the stuff I\u2019m good at, so it\u2019s kind of nice. It\u2019s been a pretty easy transition for me,\u201d Ford said. \u201cI think the coaching staff are also basing our defense off the people we have, and they kind of know what we have. They\u2019re making the jobs easy for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ford\u2019s position coach is already very familiar with what the speedy defender can bring to a defence. Elks defensive backs coach Aaron Grymes was a teammate of Ford\u2019s last season, after being brought in by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers prior to his retirement.<\/p>\n
The long-time Double E defender is already a fan of one of his key pieces in the Elks secondary.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing Tyrell Ford up close, I love it,\u201d Grymes said. \u201cI got a little bit of a head start because I got to be in the same room as him last year for a little bit, but he\u2019s awesome. He brings a great energy, very coachable. Obviously, we saw what he did on the field last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy biggest goal is to try to help elevate that and put him in positions to make plays.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ford should have plenty of opportunity in 2025 to make plays. There is already a belief around camp that visiting quarterbacks are going to have a tough time when they go up against the Green and Gold.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur defensive line is eating, so that makes it a lot easier,\u201d Ford said about the defensive performance so far in camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur front seven\u2019s unmatched,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone can keep up with them, but our DBs are good too. Everybody\u2019s out there making plays. We\u2019re all flying around. We\u2019re all fast, we\u2019re all athletic. It\u2019s a good group and I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 While quarterback Tre Ford has already found his admirers among the Green and Gold faithful, it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-145103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145103","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=145103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}