{"id":333954,"date":"2025-12-09T05:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333954\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:54:31","slug":"barnes-staying-put-calgary-stampeders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333954\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes Staying Put &#8211; Calgary Stampeders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed national receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/players\/clark-barnes\/167941\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clark Barnes<\/a>. The University of Guelph product had been eligible to become a free agent on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Clark Barnes<br \/>#14<br \/>Receiver<br \/>College: Guelph<br \/>Height: 6.01<br \/>Weight: 199<br \/>Born: Sept. 3, 2000<br \/>Birthplace: Brampton, ON\u200b<br \/>National<\/p>\n<p>Barnes was a third-round selection by the Red and White in the 2023 draft and he has played 39 games over three seasons, accumulating 104 career catches for 1,425 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Barnes had a career-high 601 receiving yards with 35 receptions and two touchdowns in 14 regular-season contests. He added four catches for 73 yards and a touchdown in the Western Semi-Final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClark has made steady progress over the course of his young career and is a dangerous deep threat for our offence,\u201d said Stampeders general manager and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampeders.com\/dave-dickenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Dickenson<\/a>. \u201cWith three seasons of experience under his belt, we look forward to continued development and to see him to raise his play to an even higher level in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barnes expressed his pleasure to be remaining in Calgary, particularly with the Grey Cup game being played at McMahon Stadium in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad to be back and I\u2019m looking forward to the season,\u201d said Barnes. \u201cLet\u2019s go win this thing at home this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed national receiver Clark Barnes. The University of Guelph product had been eligible to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-333954","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\/333954","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=333954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}