{"id":296034,"date":"2025-11-20T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296034\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:04:08","slug":"transaction-elks-extend-defensive-linemen-smith-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296034\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSACTION: Elks extend defensive linemen Smith, Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ParagraphElement-module_ParagraphElement_lH-5J\">Smith will suit up for his second season with the Green and Gold after injuries cut short his 2025 campaign. The two-time Grey Cup Champion defensive lineman has been one of the best National pass rushers in the CFL for over half a decade. In 90 career games, Smith has racked up 143 defensive tackles, 20 sacks, one interception, and three forced fumbles \u2014 including back-to-back six sack seasons in 2023 and 2024 prior to his injury shortened first season with the Elks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith will suit up for his second season with the Green and Gold after injuries cut short his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-296034","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\/296034","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=296034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}