The Edmonton Elks have signed star running back Justin Rankin through the 2027 CFL season, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old enters Week 19 of this season second in the league with 12 touchdowns (eight rushing, four receiving) and fourth in yards from scrimmage with 1,471 (838 rushing, 633 receiving).<\/p>\n
Rankin became just the second Edmonton player to record over 200 yards rushing in a game when he ran for 204 yards on 16 carries in a 31-19 win over Calgary on Sept. 6<\/p>\n
That performance included a 90-yard rushing touchdown, the longest in the CFL since 2000 and the longest from an Edmonton player since Jim Germany\u2019s 94-yard run in 1977.<\/p>\n
Rankin joined the Elks in training camp before the 2024 season, but he was cut on May 19. He re-signed with the club on July 21 and rushed for 765 yards on 98 carries for a league-best 7.8 yards per carry.<\/p>\n
Rankin was a star in the Indoor Football League (2021-2023) before joining the Elks. He finished second in the league in both rushing yards (923) and touchdowns (45) as a member of the Bay Area Panthers in 2023.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m excited to be staying in Edmonton for the next two seasons,” Rankin said in a release. “I feel the city and the fans have embraced me, and I love the direction this team is going.”<\/p>\n
The Elks enter a game Saturday against visiting Winnipeg in fifth place in the West Division at 6-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Elks have signed star running back Justin Rankin through the 2027 CFL season, the team announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-195705","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\/195705","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=195705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}