{"id":323085,"date":"2025-12-03T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323085\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:13:07","slug":"elks-extend-defensive-lineman-brandon-barlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323085\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks extend defensive lineman Brandon Barlow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message x_skipProofing\" dir=\"ltr\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(55, 65, 81)\">EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Elks have extended American defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/brandon-barlow\/167162\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Brandon Barlow\">Brandon Barlow<\/a> through the 2026 season, the club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message x_skipProofing\" dir=\"ltr\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(55, 65, 81)\">Barlow was scheduled to become a free agent in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message x_skipProofing\" dir=\"ltr\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(55, 65, 81)\">The defensive lineman returns to the Green and Gold after a 2025 season that saw the veteran start in all 18 games for the club. The 27 year-old registered 35 defensive tackles, two sacks, one forced fumble, and his first career interception in a Week 20 matchup against the BC Lions. 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 games.<\/p>\n<p>Barlow began his career in Canadian Football as member of the Toronto Argonauts, winning the 2022 Grey Cup as a member of the team. 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>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":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Elks have extended American defensive lineman Brandon Barlow through the 2026 season, the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-323085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323085","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=323085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}