{"id":351942,"date":"2025-12-17T21:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351942\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:44:23","slug":"stamps-sign-running-back-dedrick-mills-to-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351942\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamps sign running back Dedrick Mills to two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders announced on Wednesday they have signed American running back Dedrick Mills<\/a> to a two-year contract that will keep the Waycross, Ga., product with the Red and White through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

A member of the 2025 All-CFL team and the CFL\u2019s reigning rushing champion, Mills had been eligible to become a free agent on Feb. 10. Mills was listed at No. 19 on CFL.ca\u2019s top 30 pending free agents list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mills won the CFL rushing crown in 2025 as he set single-season career highs with 1,409 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns. He shared the league lead with four 100-yard rushing performances and was tops in the CFL with 46 carries of at least 10 yards. In addition to his rushing totals, Mills had 33 receptions for 292 yards.<\/p>\n

Mills was voted a division and league All-CFL running back and earned the Stampeders\u2019 nomination for Most Outstanding Player. He followed up his award-winning regular season by amassing 114 rushing yards in the Western Semi-Final.<\/p>\n

\u201cDedrick proved in 2025 he is one of the top backs in our league,\u201d said Stampeders general manager and head coach Dave Dickenson. \u201cHe has improved each and every year since he joined the team and we look forward to seeing his best in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful to be back with the Stamps and continue building on what we started,\u201d said Mills. \u201cThis city, this locker room and this team mean a lot to me and I\u2019m ready to get back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 51 career regular season games since joining the Stampeders in 2022, Mills has rushed for 3,593 yards and 18 touchdowns while catching 98 passes for 847 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders announced on Wednesday they have signed American running back Dedrick Mills to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-351942","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\/351942","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=351942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}