{"id":376554,"date":"2025-12-30T04:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376554\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T04:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:37:09","slug":"edmonton-elks-sign-running-back-antario-brown-bgmsportstrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376554\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks sign running back Antario Brown \u2013 BGMSportsTrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmsportstrax.com\/2025\/02\/07\/edmonton-elks-sign-defensive-back-willie-roberts\/edmonton-elks-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767069429_502_Edmonton-Elks-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Edmonton Elks\" title=\"Edmonton Elks 2025\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nEdmonton Elks<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Elks re-signed running back Antario Brown on Monday according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CFL Transactions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/antario-brown\/169614\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antario Brown<\/a> is five foot ten and weighs 221 pounds. The 23-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, signed with the Calgary Stampeders practice squad on October 7, 2025. The Stampeders released him on October 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, Brown played four seasons at <a href=\"https:\/\/niuhuskies.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/antario-brown\/17352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Illinois<\/a> (2021-24) with 518 carries for 3,090 yards, 26 rushing touchdowns, 21 catches for 263 yards, and two touchdowns in 40 games for the Huskies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, he had 212 carries for 1,296 yards, 10 rushing touchdowns, 12 catches for 52 yards, and one touchdown in 13 games. He was named First Team All-MAC. He became the ninth player in school history to surpass 3,000 career rushing yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks The Edmonton Elks re-signed running back Antario Brown on Monday according to the CFL Transactions page.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,13264,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-376554","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-edmonton-elks","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376554","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=376554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}