{"id":424316,"date":"2026-01-21T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424316\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:18:09","slug":"stampeders-sign-star-defensive-lineman-clarence-hicks-to-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424316\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders sign star defensive lineman Clarence Hicks to three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769026689_349_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJan 21, 2026 | 11:18 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders have signed star defensive lineman Clarence Hicks to a three-year contract, the CFL club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks had been eligible to become a free agent on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old from Pensacola, Fla., was a West Division all-star and Calgary\u2019s nominee for outstanding defensive player in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He had a team-leading 12 sacks, 28 tackles, two forced fumbles and six knockdowns in 18 games last season, and added another three defensive tackles in the Stampeders\u2019 loss to B.C. in the West Division semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Jan 21, 2026 | 11:18 AM CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders have signed star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-424316","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\/424316","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=424316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}