{"id":655620,"date":"2026-05-08T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:46:08","slug":"stampeders-sign-qb-vernon-adams-jr-to-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655620\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders sign QB\u00a0Vernon\u00a0Adams\u00a0Jr. to two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Stampeders signed quarterback\u00a0Vernon\u00a0Adams\u00a0Jr. to a two-year extension Thursday that will keep him with the club through the 2028 CFL season.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, acquired in a trade from the B.C. Lions after the 2024 campaign, went 11-6 as a starter in his first season with Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old threw for 4,247 yards with 21 touchdowns and 14 interceptions over 17 regular-season games last year.<\/p>\n<p>He also rushed for 332 yards and two touchdowns while adding two two-point conversions on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In the Western semifinal,\u00a0Adams\u00a0completed 23 of 33 passes for 334 yards and two touchdowns in Calgary\u2019s 33-30 loss to the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Adams\u00a0has passed for 20,437 yards and 117 touchdowns across nine seasons with the Montreal Alouettes, Lions and Stampeders.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Stampeders signed quarterback\u00a0Vernon\u00a0Adams\u00a0Jr. to a two-year extension Thursday that will keep him with the club through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-655620","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\/655620","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=655620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}