{"id":778021,"date":"2026-07-03T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778021\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:02:11","slug":"transaction-elks-add-global-lb-vrede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778021\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSACTION: Elks add global LB Vrede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ParagraphElement-module_ParagraphElement_lH-5J\">Vrede (6\u20190, 230) joins the Green and Gold after five seasons as a standout special teamer in the Nation\u2019s capital. The Netherlands product had suited up for 55 games for the REDBLACKS from 2021 to 2025, registering 41 defensive tackles, 35 special teams tackles, one sack, and one forced fumble. He signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in free agency, and had spent the last month on the team\u2019s practice roster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vrede (6\u20190, 230) joins the Green and Gold after five seasons as a standout special teamer in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-778021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778021","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=778021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}