Ottawa Redblacks defensive lineman Daniel Okpoko left Friday\u2019s game against the Edmonton Elks in an ambulance after suffering an injury late in the fourth quarter while making a tackle.<\/p>\n
The team announced that he is responsive, has movement in all extremities and is under further evaluation at the hospital.<\/p>\n
Okpoko ran Elks quarterback Cody Fajardo down from behind and made the play, bringing the pivot down to the ground.<\/p>\n
After briefly regaining his feet, Okpoko went back down to the ground, where he was attended to by the team\u2019s training staff.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old was eventually placed on a stretcher and taken out of the game by the medical staff.<\/p>\n
Okpoko has appeared in 11 games this season for the Redblacks, his second campaign in the CFL.<\/p>\n
The Saskatoon, Sask. native has recorded 15 tackles and one sack over 29 games with the Redblacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks defensive lineman Daniel Okpoko left Friday\u2019s game against the Edmonton Elks in an ambulance after suffering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-92225","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\/92225","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=92225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}