EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Elks announced on Thursday their 2026 Football Operations and Coaching Staffs.<\/p>\n
The Elks Football Operations staff led by VP of football operations and general manager Ed Hervey remains completely intact, with football operations assistant Nic Cross<\/a> and strength and conditioning specialist Danelle Tucker joining the club in a full-time capacity.<\/p>\n On the coaching side, joining the Green and Gold are Jabari Arthur as the new running backs coach and Cedric Douglas as the new defensive line coach. In addition, Des Catellier<\/a> has been named special teams coach.<\/p>\n RELATED \u00a0<\/p>\n Arthur heads North up the QEII, joining the Elks coaching staff after nine-years in U SPORTS with the University of Calgary, most recently serving as the Dinos\u2019 offensive coordinator from 2021 to 2025.<\/p>\n The native of Montreal, QC was a wide receiver at the pro and college level, starting out with the University of Akron where he set the school record for both receptions (86) and receiving yards (1,171) in 2007. Arthur joined the Kansas City Chiefs following the NFL Draft, but would spend the majority of his career in the CFL with the Calgary Stampeders (2008-09 & 2009-2015).<\/p>\n Arthur\u2019s coaching career began with the Calgary Dinos, joining the program in 2017 as the team\u2019s wide receivers coach \u2014 a position he held until his 2022 promotion to offensive coordinator. While serving as receivers coach, Arthur would oversee a group that included future CFL stars Tyson and Jalen Philpot, helping the Calgary Dinos win the 2019 Vanier Cup.<\/p>\n Douglas joins the Elks after a long career coaching at the NCAA level. He has spent the last seven years leading defensive line rooms, with stints at the University of Massachusetts (2019-20), University of Buffalo (2021-23), Utah State (2024), and Georgia Southern University (2025).<\/p>\n Douglas began his coaching career in 2012 coaching outside linebackers and running backs at Lincoln High School. Collegiately, Douglas played at Northern Michigan from 2007-11, appearing in 35 games as an outside linebacker and defensive end, while recording 89 tackles, nine sacks, and two interceptions.<\/p>\n Departing the Elks staff are last season\u2019s running backs coach and offensive assistant Trysten Dyce and special teams coordinator & defensive assistant Demetrious Maxie.<\/p>\n Elks\u2019 2026 football operations personnel<\/p>\n Ed Hervey \u2013 VP of Football Operations and General Manager Elks\u2019 2026 coaching staff<\/p>\n Mark Kilam \u2013 Head Coach
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\nSpencer Zimmerman \u2013 Sr. Assistant General Manager $ Director of Player Personnel
\nSpencer Boehm \u2013 Director, US Scouting
\nRich Massaro \u2013 Director, Canadian Scouting
\nNick Pelletier \u2013 Director, Football Operations
\nNic Cross<\/a> \u2013 Football Operations Assistant
\nBrian Cheeseman \u2013 Director of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
\nLisa Swallow \u2013 Asst. Athletic Therapist and Physical Therapist
\nDanelle Tucker \u2013 Strength & Conditioning Specialist
\nDan Rosnau \u2013 Equipment Manager
\nShaylee Ford \u2013 Video Coordinator<\/p>\n
\nJordan Maksymic \u2013 Offensive Coordinator, Assistant Head Coach
\nJ.C. Sherritt<\/a> \u2013 Defensive Coordinator, Linebackers Coach
\nStephen Sorrells \u2013 Offensive Line Coach, Run Game Coordinator
\nJason Tucker \u2013 Receivers Coach
\nAaron Grymes<\/a> \u2013 Defensive Backs Coach
\nDes Catellier<\/a> \u2013 Special Teams Coach
\nJabari Arthur \u2013 Running Backs Coach
\nCedric Douglas \u2013 Defensive Line Coach
\nDanny Nesbitt \u2013 Defensive Quality Control Coach
\nAnthony Vitale \u2013 Defensive Analyst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Elks announced on Thursday their 2026 Football Operations and Coaching Staffs. The Elks Football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-471236","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\/471236","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=471236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}