CFL.ca brings you three key stats from the Edmonton Elks\u2019 win over the Ottawa REDBLACKS.<\/p>\n
RELATED 1 \u2013 JAVON LEAKE PUNT-RETURN TOUCHDOWN<\/p>\n Very little separated the Elks and REDBLACKS on Friday night and a scoring play on special teams ended up being vital for the Elks in their road win.<\/p>\n Javon Leake<\/a> must like what he sees when he lines up against Richie Leone<\/a> and Ottawa\u2019s special teams unit because he now has two punt-return touchdowns against the REDBLACKS this season. His 80-yard return to the house in the second quarter stunned the Ottawa crowd as Edmonton jumped out to a 17-0 lead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 94 \u2013 JUSTIN RANKIN YARDS FROM SCRIMMAGE<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t the mighty 179-yard effort he put up against the Toronto Argonauts in Week 11, but Justin Rankin was the danger man for the Elks once again in Week 12, going for 94 yards and a touchdown against the REDBLACKS.<\/p>\n Rankin was more effective as a receiver than rusher on Friday, catching five balls for 58 yards. He was a useful dump-off option for Fajardo, and was able to tack on extra yards when he got the ball in his hands. His lone touchdown came on the ground however, as he ran in from six yards out as part of a drive in which he had 44 yards.<\/p>\n 1 \u2013 LATE SCORING DRIVE<\/p>\n It seems as though no lead is safe after the three-minute warning in the CFL but on Friday night, the Elks ensured that they wouldn\u2019t give Ottawa a chance tie the game with the final possession. Edmonton scored on their final drive to put the game out of reach and not let there be any hope of a late twist.<\/p>\n Fajardo and the Elks\u2019 offence travelled 55 yards across eight plays on their final series, leading to a Vincent Blanchard field goal which put Edmonton up by 10. One of those eight plays was a 38-yard toss from Fajardo to Kurleigh Gittens Jr.<\/a> which put the Elks into field-goal range. Fajardo rushed for 12 yards and a first down to kill some more clock and make the kick even easier for Blanchard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2013 It was almost a tale of two halves in Friday night\u2019s matchup between the Elks and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-93500","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\/93500","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=93500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00bb Cody Fajardo<\/a> and Elks hold off REDBLACKS for third straight win<\/a>
\u00bb Edmonton, Ottawa by the numbers<\/a>
\u00bb Depth Charts: EDM<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0OTT<\/a>
\u00bb\u00a0Injury Reports: Stay up to date<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FINALPD113-800x451.jpg\")
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