{"id":73376,"date":"2025-08-16T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73376\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:25:06","slug":"3-stats-that-defined-edmontons-week-11-win-over-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73376\/","title":{"rendered":"3 stats that defined Edmonton\u2019s Week 11 win over Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2014 Another week, another nail-biter for the Edmonton Elks, who edged the Toronto Argonauts 28-20 at Commonwealth Stadium on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Chaos in the late stages had fans on edge, but the Elks \u2014 buoyed by a dominant outing from Justin Rankin \u2014 held on to improve to 3-6.<\/p>\n

Nick Arbuckle<\/a>\u2019s career-high passing numbers weren\u2019t enough to lift the Argos, who fell to 2-8.<\/p>\n

CFL.ca brings you three key stats from the Edmonton Elks\u2019 win over the Toronto Argonauts.<\/p>\n

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179 \u2013 JUSTIN RANKIN TOTAL YARDS<\/p>\n

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The Elks went to Rankin early and leaned on him throughout. From his first touch \u2014 a 24-yard reception that sparked an opening-drive score \u2014 the dynamic back showed a gear the Argos\u2019 defence couldn\u2019t match. For a third straight week, he led his side in receiving yards with 87, adding to his league lead among running backs, and also rushed for 92 yards on 13 carries. His 179-yard total marks a season high and the third time he\u2019s surpassed 100 yards in a game this year.<\/p>\n

After being held to zero rushing yards against the Montreal Alouettes in Week 10, Rankin\u2019s bounce-back effort was key to keeping the Elks in the win column.<\/p>\n

0 \u2013 EDMONTON SACKS ALLOWED<\/p>\n

The Elks\u2019 Week 10 comeback over the Alouettes came with lessons, chief among them: protecting quarterback Cody Fajardo<\/a>, who was sacked five times in Montreal. While protection wasn\u2019t perfect on Friday, the Elks stayed clean with quick passes and a reliable run game, keeping standout pass rusher Andrew Chatfield Jr. \u2014 who has six sacks this season \u2014 out of the action.<\/p>\n

That stout presence in the trenches gave Fajardo the confidence to stand tall in the pocket, finishing 25-of-31 for 273 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 TORONTO RED ZONE TOUCHDOWN<\/p>\n

Entering Week 11, no quarterback had more success inside their opponent\u2019s 20-yard line than Arbuckle, completing 25 of 31 attempts for 206 yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions. But of the Argos\u2019 five trips to the red zone on Friday, they were only able to punch it in once, marking a dramatic turnaround for an Elks defence that had been allowing touchdowns at a 22.9 per cent clip, red zone or not.<\/p>\n

Though Arbuckle racked up a career high of 382 passing yards, the Elks\u2019 front made him work for it when it mattered most, holding him to two-for-six with 22 yards, a touchdown, a lost fumble and a drive-killing intentional grounding call in the red zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Another week, another nail-biter for the Edmonton Elks, who edged the Toronto Argonauts 28-20 at Commonwealth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-73376","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\/73376","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=73376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}