{"id":368727,"date":"2025-12-25T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/368727\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T21:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:23:43","slug":"transaction-elks-extend-defensive-back-jj-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/368727\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSACTION: Elks extend defensive back JJ Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013 The Edmonton Elks have extended American defensive back JJ Ross through the 2027 season, the club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ross (6\u20193, 195) continues his career in the Green and Gold after a 2025 season that saw the rookie garner a reputation as one of the CFL\u2019s up-and-coming shutdown corners.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old began last season on the Elks practice roster, before being elevated to a starting role in Week 8 against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Ross started all 13 games remaining for the Green and Gold, registering 52 defensive tackles, a team-leading three interceptions, two forced fumbles, and a fumble recovery.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JJ ROSS WITH THE INT \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoElks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GoElks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dGPREj8shg\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dGPREj8shg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edmonton Elks (@GoElks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoElks\/status\/1969562852475486596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rookie defender came on late in the season, forcing five turnovers in his final six contests and recording all seven of his pass knockdowns over that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Originally joining the Elks in July of 2024, Ross spent some time last season on the club\u2019s practice roster and made his CFL debut on Aug. 25 in a Week 12 contest against Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his time in the CFL, Ross played collegiately at the University of Western Illinois where he was named a Second Team Preseason All-MVFC by Phil Steele in 2023 and was the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Elks 2026 Season Seats are on sale now. Catch every moment next season by securing your seats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goelks.com\/seasonseats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 The Edmonton Elks have extended American defensive back JJ Ross through the 2027 season, the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-368727","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\/368727","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=368727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}