{"id":661024,"date":"2026-05-10T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661024\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:34:09","slug":"edmonton-elks-release-wide-receiver-justin-lockhart-bgmsportstrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661024\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks release wide receiver Justin Lockhart \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\/1778452449_552_Edmonton-Elks-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Edmonton Elks\" title=\"Edmonton Elks 2025\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nEdmonton Elks<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Elks <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoElks\/status\/2053478624410685572\" rel=\"nofollow\">released<\/a> wide receiver Justin Lockhart on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Lockhart is six foot three and weighs 196 pounds. A native of Los Angeles, California, Lockhart signed with the Edmonton Elks on November 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs signed Lockhart as an undrafted free agent on May 5, 2025. He suffered an injury and was released on May 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, Lockhart spent three seasons at <a href=\"https:\/\/nevadawolfpack.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/justin-lockhart\/6961\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada<\/a> (2019-21) with 67 catches for 744 yards, four touchdowns, one carry for nine yards, and one tackle (1 assist) in 26 games for the Wolf Pack. Then, he transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/player\/justin-lockhart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose State University<\/a> (2022-24) with 89 catches for 1,561 yards, six touchdowns, and one tackle (1 solo) in 25 games for the Spartans.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, he missed the season due to an injury. In his final collegiate season in 2024, Lockhart had a career-high 53 catches for 983 yards (75.6 AVG\/G), five touchdowns, and one tackle (1 solo) in 13 games. He was named Second Team All-Mountain West and Second Team All-Mountain West by Phil Steele. He was also an All-Mountain West Honorable Mention in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks The Edmonton Elks released wide receiver Justin Lockhart on Sunday. Justin Lockhart is six foot three&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-661024","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\/661024","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=661024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661024\/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=661024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}