{"id":321524,"date":"2025-12-02T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321524\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:38:08","slug":"edmonton-elks-bring-back-de-brandon-barlow-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321524\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks bring back DE Brandon Barlow on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Edmonton Elks have brought back American defensive lineman\u00a0Brandon Barlow\u00a0through the 2026 season, the club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barlow was a pending free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old\u00a0returns to the Green and Gold after a 2025 season that saw the veteran start in all 18 games for the club. Barlow registered 35 defensive tackles, two sacks, one forced fumble, and his first career interception in a Week 20 matchup against the BC Lions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barlow has been a reliable pass rusher over his four year CFL career, with the Boston College product racking up 123 tackles and 17 sacks in 60 CFL contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barlow began his career north of the border as a member of the Toronto Argonauts, winning the 2022 Grey Cup. The following season, Barlow set a career high with nine sacks with the Argos before signing a free agent deal with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to his time in the CFL, Barlow was a member of the Boston College Eagles where he played 50 games with the team from 2017-2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Elks have brought back American defensive lineman\u00a0Brandon Barlow\u00a0through the 2026 season, the club announced Tuesday. Barlow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,76946,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-321524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canadian-football-league","12":"tag-canadianfootballleague","13":"tag-cfl","14":"tag-edmonton-elks-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-114347","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321524","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=321524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}