{"id":639871,"date":"2026-05-01T02:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:28:57","slug":"edmonton-elks-place-defensive-lineman-tyreek-johnson-on-the-retired-list-bgmsportstrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639871\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks place defensive lineman Tyreek Johnson on the retired list \u2013 BGMSportsTrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmsportstrax.com\/2025\/02\/07\/edmonton-elks-sign-defensive-back-willie-roberts\/edmonton-elks-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Edmonton-Elks-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Edmonton Elks\" title=\"Edmonton Elks 2025\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nEdmonton Elks<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Elks placed defensive lineman Tyreek Johnson on the retired list on Thursday according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/transactions\/?_gl=1*v4l1hf*_gcl_au*MTI3MTMzMjU2OC4xNzcwNjczMDEx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CFL Transactions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/tyreek-johnson\/168507\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyreek Johnson<\/a> is six foot four and weighs 283 pounds. The 27-year-old from Sumter, South Carolina, signed with the Edmonton Elks on July 2, 2025. In 2025, he made 13 tackles and one sack in 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Jets signed Johnson as an undrafted free agent on May 3, 2024. The Jets released him on June 6, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, Johnson played five seasons at <a href=\"https:\/\/gamecocksonline.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/player\/tyreek-johnson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina<\/a> (2019-23) with 29 tackles (15 solos, 14 assists), 5.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and one fumble recovery in 26 games, of which four were starts for the Gamecocks.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was named a four-time SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll (2019-22), Gamecock Toughness Award, co-President\u2019s Outstanding Student, NFF Hampshire Honor Society, and CSC Academic All-District in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks The Edmonton Elks placed defensive lineman Tyreek Johnson on the retired list on Thursday according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,13264,82],"class_list":["post-639871","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","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639871","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=639871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}