{"id":575125,"date":"2026-04-01T12:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:29:13","slug":"edmonton-elks-bring-back-veteran-coach-rick-campbell-in-analyst-role-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575125\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks bring back veteran coach Rick Campbell in analyst role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">EDMONTON \u2014 Rick Campbell is back with the Edmonton Elks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The CFL team hired Campbell as a coaching analyst Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Campbell began his CFL coaching career as defensive backs and special-teams co-ordinator with Edmonton (1999-04), as well as the defensive co-ordinator (2005-08) and won two Grey Cup titles with the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Campbell\u2019s father, Hugh, guided Edmonton to five straight Grey Cup titles (1978-82) as head coach and later served as a GM, president and CEO before retiring in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rick Campbell, 55, also served as the head coach of Ottawa (2014-2019) and the B.C. Lions (2021-24). He was the Redblacks\u2019 special-teams co-ordinator last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Campbell won a third Grey Cup as a coach in 2016 with Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Rick Campbell is back with the Edmonton Elks. The CFL team hired Campbell as a coaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-575125","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\/575125","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=575125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}