{"id":296330,"date":"2025-11-20T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296330\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:24:08","slug":"elks-extend-defensive-linemen-robbie-smith-jordan-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296330\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks extend defensive linemen Robbie Smith, Jordan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2013 The Edmonton Elks have extended National defensive lineman Robbie Smith<\/a> and American defensive lineman Jordan Williams<\/a>, the club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

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

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The 28-year-old holds the distinction of making the game saving field goal block in the 2022 Grey Cup game \u2014 a 24-23 Argos victory over Winnipeg. Smith\u2019s extension will run through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

Williams joined Edmonton midway through the 2025 season after two years with the Toronto Argonauts (2023-24), where he was a Grey Cup Champion in 2024. Williams suited up for 14 games in 2024 split between the Argos and Elks, registering 13 defensive tackles and scoring a defensive touchdown on a 77-yard fumble recovery against Ottawa.<\/p>\n

For his college career, the Virginia Beach, Virginia native suited up for both Virginia Tech and Clemson. Williams was a member of the Tigers roster that won the 2019 College Football Playoffs National Championship in a 44-16 win over the Alabama Crimson Tide. His extension will run through the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 The Edmonton Elks have extended National defensive lineman Robbie Smith and American defensive lineman Jordan Williams,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-296330","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\/296330","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=296330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}