{"id":365739,"date":"2025-12-24T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365739\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:16:13","slug":"b-c-lions-sign-star-linebacker-darnell-sankey-to-one-year-contract-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365739\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Lions sign star linebacker Darnell Sankey to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sankey totalled 101 defensive tackles and two sacks in the regular season in 2025 before the Alouettes fell 25-17 to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Grey Cup game.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766407690_440_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In three years with the Alouettes, Sankey had 239 defensive tackles, four sacks, two interceptions and five forced fumbles in 41 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>Sankey made his CFL debut with Calgary Stampeders in 2021, appearing in all 14 regular season games and registering 97 defensive tackles, one sack and a forced fumble while earning West Division All-CFL honours.<\/p>\n<p>He had a standout 2022 season with Saskatchewan with 120 defensive tackles, three sacks, one interception and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>In between his time with the Roughriders and the Alouettes, the 31-year-old from San Jose, Calif., won a championship in the XFL with the Arlington Renegades.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 19, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sankey totalled 101 defensive tackles and two sacks in the regular season in 2025 before the Alouettes fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-365739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365739","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=365739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}