{"id":451677,"date":"2026-02-03T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451677\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:22:07","slug":"edmonton-elks-extend-db-kobe-williams-agree-to-terms-with-canadian-wr-brendan-oleary-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451677\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks extend DB Kobe Williams, agree to terms with Canadian WR Brendan O\u2019Leary-Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Edmonton Elks have extended pending free agent defensive back Kobe Williams, while also agreeing to terms on a one-year deal with receiver Brendan O\u2019Leary-Orange, according to TSN\u2019s Farhan Lalji.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some day 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFLFA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CFLFA<\/a> news:<br \/>DB Kobe Williams extends with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Elks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Elks<\/a> on a 1-year deal. <br \/>Receiver Brendan O\u2019Leary-Orange has also agreed to terms on a one year deal in Edm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Farhan Lalji (@FarhanLaljiTSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FarhanLaljiTSN\/status\/2018730387099562036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams spent the 2025 season in Edmonton after spending the previous four seasons with the Calgary Stampeders. In 18 games with the Elks, the 27-year-old recorded 54 defensive tackles and six special teams tackles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With Calgary (2021-2024) Williams put up 136 tackles, three interceptions, and one sack in 48 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">O\u2019Leary-Orange has spent the past two seasons as a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, making 38 catches for 671 receiving yards and five touchdowns in 25 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto native spent the first three seasons of his career with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers where he grabbed 25 catches for 344 yards and two touchdowns in 33 games.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Elks have extended pending free agent defensive back Kobe Williams, while also agreeing to terms on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,76946,82],"class_list":["post-451677","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-edmonton-elks-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-114347","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451677","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=451677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}