The Calgary Stampeders have signed American defensive backs Zy Alexander and Jordan Polk.<\/p>\n
Zy Alexander
Defensive back
College: Louisiana State
Height: 6.01
Weight: 187
Born: Nov. 26, 2001
Birthplace: Loreauville, LA
American<\/p>\n
In college, Alexander played two years at Louisiana State (2023-24) after transferring from Southeastern Louisiana. Across the two schools, he made 46 starts over 50 games with 174 tackles including 2.5 tackles for loss, 23 pass breakups, 13 interceptions including two returned for touchdowns, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and one sack. He was first-team all-Southland Conference at Southeastern Louisiana in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n
Alexander was previously with the National Football League\u2019s Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills as well as the United Football League\u2019s Houston Gamblers.<\/p>\n
Jordan Polk
Defensive back
College: Texas State
Height: 5.11
Weight: 189
Born: Feb. 2, 2001
Birthplace: Grand Prairie, TX
American<\/p>\n
Polk played his senior season at Texas State in 2024 when he was an all-Sun Belt Conference honourable mention. He spent the previous three years at East Texas A&M (now Texas A&M\u2013Commerce). Across his collegiate career, Polk appeared in 39 games and made 26 starts. He totalled 141 tackles including 12.5 tackles for loss, 15 passes defended, two interceptions, six forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and five sacks.<\/p>\n
In 2025, he signed with the New England Patriots of the NFL before spending time earlier this year with the Louisville Kings of the UFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Stampeders have signed American defensive backs Zy Alexander and Jordan Polk. Zy AlexanderDefensive backCollege: Louisiana StateHeight:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-593210","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\/593210","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=593210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}