While talking with 880 CHED\u2019s Dave Campbell<\/a>, Elks\u2019 vice president of football operations and general manager Ed Hervey was non-committal on Ford\u2019s future with the franchise.<\/p>\n\u201cWe haven\u2019t had a chance to talk with Tre or his agent. With respect to how it goes, when you make this level of a commitment, it has to be something that both sides have to be willing to work and compromise, obviously there\u2019s a financial impact there as well,\u201d said Hervey<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I stated earlier this year, sometimes the opportunities may be elsewhere, and we\u2019ll have to look at that as a situation if it\u2019s a case that works for Tre. He\u2019s got a ton of ability, but sometimes a fresh start is the best start for some guys in this business. He\u2019s been nothing but a great pro here, but in the business of football, it sometimes doesn\u2019t allow for everything to work out the way you would hope or expect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ford\u2019s 2025 season was less than ideal despite entering the year as the No.1 on the depth chart. The 27-year-old started the first five games of the year for Edmonton, going 1-4 in those contests. On the year, the Niagara Falls, Ont. native finished with 984 yards, five touchdowns, and three interceptions, while adding 152 yards and a touchdown on the ground.<\/p>\n
In his four seasons with the Elks, the former first-round pick has registered 4,651 yards, 29 touchdowns, 19 interceptions and a 67.2 completion percentage through the air and 1,129 yards and four touchdowns as a runner.<\/p>\n
Among the 14 passers who threw at least 100 times, Ford\u2019s completion percentage (67.8), completion percentage on throws of 20-plus yards (37.5), and efficiency rate (95.9) sit in the bottom five.<\/p>\n
This comes after the Elks re-signed pending free agent quarterback Cody Fajardo to a one-year deal for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-1, 215-pound pivot took over for Ford in Week 8, posting a 6-7 record as a starter during the final 13 games of the season.<\/p>\n
As the Elks starting QB, the 33-year-old completed 73.2 per cent of his passes \u2014 second in the CFL to Saskatchewan\u2019s Trevor Harris \u2014 for 3,408 yards and 14 touchdowns. The Brea, Calif. native also added 319 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground, with his 21 total touchdowns the most by Fajardo since the 2022 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cCody Fajardo\u2019s contract extension underscores our commitment to stability and progress, positioning the team for an exciting and promising 2026 season,\u201d Hervey said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In his 141-game CFL career, Fajardo has amassed 21,406 passing yards, 2,810 rushing yards, and 148 total touchdowns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian quarterback Tre Ford\u2019s time in an Edmonton Elks uniform could be coming to an end sooner rather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,76946,82],"class_list":["post-335978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-edmonton-elks-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-114347","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335978","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=335978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}