The Calgary Stampeders have named quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. (offence), defensive back Derrick Moncrief (defence) and kicker Rene Paredes (special teams) as their three captains for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
The veteran trio, who were chosen by a vote of their teammates, have a combined 31 years of Canadian Football League playing experience.<\/p>\n
Adams has now been named a captain for each of his two seasons with the Stamps. Moncrief is a first-time selection on behalf of the Red and White as he begins his second year in Calgary. Paredes, entering his 15th season in the CFL all as a Stampeder, fills a captaincy role for the 12th time.<\/p>\n
The Stamps begin their regular season on Friday with a home game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Kickoff from McMahon Stadium is at 7 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Stampeders have named quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. (offence), defensive back Derrick Moncrief (defence) and kicker Rene…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-708919","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\/708919","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=708919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}