{"id":424631,"date":"2026-01-21T23:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:38:14","slug":"stampeders-sign-defensive-lineman-clarence-hicks-to-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424631\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders sign defensive lineman Clarence Hicks to three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; loss to B.C. in the West Division semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks signed with the Stampeders in 2024. He has 42 defensive tackles and 16 sacks in 36 career regular-season CFL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Stampeders have signed star defensive lineman Clarence Hicks to a three-year contract, the CFL club announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-424631","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\/424631","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=424631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}