{"id":366844,"date":"2025-12-24T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:47:08","slug":"edmonton-elks-extend-db-jj-ross-through-2027-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366844\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks extend DB JJ Ross through 2027 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Edmonton Elks signed defensive back JJ Ross to a two-year contract extension that will put him in green and yellow through the 2027 season, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ross, 24, appeared in 13 games as a rookie last season, recording 52 defensive tackles and was tied for the team lead with three interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-3 defensive back signed with the Elks in July of 2024 after playing three seasons with the University of Western Illinois Leathernecks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had 80 defensive tackles and three interceptions during his 30-game NCAA career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ross appeared in one game during the 2024 season and began the 2025 campaign on the practice roster before being elevated for a Week 8 contest with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonton finished last in the CFL\u2019s West Division with a 7-11 record last season and missed the playoffs for a fifth consecutive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Elks signed defensive back JJ Ross to a two-year contract extension that will put him in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,76946,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-366844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canadian-football-league","12":"tag-canadianfootballleague","13":"tag-cfl","14":"tag-edmonton-elks-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-114347","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366844","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=366844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}