{"id":458565,"date":"2026-02-06T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458565\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:22:09","slug":"elks-extend-national-fullback-jacob-plamondon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458565\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks extend National fullback Jacob Plamondon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013 The Edmonton Elks have extended National fullback Jacob Plamondon through the 2026 season, the club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Plamondon (six-foot-three, 225 pounds) returns to Edmonton after spending the previous four seasons in the Green and Gold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2876544 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769710928_456_FreeAgencyLogo2026-800x642.png\"   alt=\"2026 CFL FREE AGENCY\" width=\"164\" height=\"132\" data-uw-rm-alt-original=\"\" data-uw-rm-alt=\"CT\"\/>2026 CFL FREE AGENCY<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/05\/cfl-cas-top-30-pending-free-agents-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/05\/cfl-cas-top-30-pending-free-agents-12\/\" aria-label=\"CFL.ca\u2019s top 30 pending free agents - 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open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->What you missed from the first day of the Free Agency Communication Window<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/category\/free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/category\/free-agency\/\" aria-label=\"More 2026 Free Agency news and analysis - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->More 2026 Free Agency news and analysi<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Originally a second-round pick (19th overall) by the Elks in 2022, Plamondon has suited up for 51 games from 2022 to 2025 with the Double E \u2014 recording 21 special teams tackles playing as both a fullback and a defensive lineman.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his Canadian Football League career, the Red Deer, AB native was a member of the 2019 Vanier Cup Champion Calgary Dinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 The Edmonton Elks have extended National fullback Jacob Plamondon through the 2026 season, the club announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-458565","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\/458565","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=458565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}