{"id":799663,"date":"2026-07-13T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799663\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:47:08","slug":"transaction-elks-add-bastone-to-defensive-line-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799663\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSACTION: Elks add Bastone to defensive line unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Elks have added American defensive lineman Carmine Bastone to the practice roster, the club announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bastone (6\u20192, 300) heads to Edmonton after a five-year college career at Northwestern University (2021-2026). In 39 games with the Wildcats, the 23-year-old defender amassed 68 total tackles (34 solo, nine tackles for loss), six sacks, and two forced fumbles. Bastone was awarded the No. 1 jersey for Northwestern in the 2025 preseason, considered one of the highest honours in the program. The former walk-on went undrafted in the 2026 NFL Draft, but received mini-camp invites from the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Elks have added American defensive lineman Carmine Bastone to the practice roster, the club&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-799663","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\/799663","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=799663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799663\/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=799663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}