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Edmonton Elks close season with win in overtime on a one-point rouge

The Edmonton Elks close their season with a win on a rouge

The Edmonton Elks aren’t going to the CFL playoffs. However, they ended their season in CFL-style.

The Elks finished 7-11 with a 31-30 victory in overtime over the playoff-bound Toronto Argonauts on Friday.

How does one win a game by one point in overtime? With the CFL specialty, a rouge.

The Argonauts closed with a rush and tied the game to end the fourth quarter with a late field goal.

They missed a field goal in overtime, setting the stage for Edmonton.

The Elks could have gone for a field goal to win the game. The announcer commented a field-goal attempt would have been seven yards or so closer than the punt.

However, Jake Julien, who once tried out for the New England Patriots, drilled the kick out of the back of the end zone and there was joy in Edmonton.

Former Husker selected with first overall pick in CFL global draft

A former Nebraska football player was taken with the first selection in the Canadian Football League global draft.

A former Nebraska football player was taken with the first-overall selection in the Canadian Football League global draft. Linebacker Eteva Mauga-Clements was taken by the Edmonton Elks.

Mauga-Clements spent three seasons with the Huskers, playing from 2020-2022. He was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (2021, 2022) while at Nebraska.

Elks assistant general manager Geroy Simon said the team targeted the linebacker early in the process.

“Eteva is a player we’ve targeted from the beginning of the Global process. He’s a high-level player who will contribute on special teams from the first day of camp.”

The Elks finished the 2023 season with a league-worst 4-14 record.

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CFL’s Edmonton Elks suffer 20th straight home loss

The Edmonton Elks have lost 20 straight home games

The Edmonton Elks have been so bad in CFL play they have never won a home game with their current nickname.

The last time Edmonton won a game at home was in October 2019 when they went by a different moniker. And on Thursday, the Elks equaled a futility mark with their 20th straight home loss.

Overall, after the 37-29 loss to the Hamilton Ti-Cats, the Elks are 0-6 in 2023.

Per TSN.ca:

Their current 20-game home losing streak topped the NBA’s longest home losing streak when the Dallas Mavericks managed the feat during the 1993-94 season.

The Elks claimed the CFL’s longest home losing streak on Oct. 1, 2022, when they lost 25-18 to the Montreal Alouettes for their 15th straight home loss, surpassing the Ottawa Rough Riders who lost 14 home games in a row between July 19, 1987 to October 22, 1988.

That loss also surpassed the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, who lost 14 straight during the 2003-04 season in the pre-Sidney Crosby era, and the NFL’s longest-home losing streak which was shared by the 1988-89 Dallas Cowboys and 2008-2010 St. Louis Rams.

The 20th-straight loss at home equaled MLB’s St. Louis Browns, who lost 20 home games in a row in 1953.

They won’t be home again until July 29 against the B.C. Lions and then Aug. 10 versus Winnipeg.

The loss to the Ti-Cats wasn’t as painful as the previous one.

Edmonton led 11-3 with 3 minutes left. Saskatchewan managed to tie the game and then C.J. Sims, an American player, forgot the rules in the CFL.

When the football isn’t returned out of the end zone the kicking team is awarded a point, a rouge.

Needless to say one of the Elks was, um, rouge-faced with embarrassment.

Edmonton Elks’ Christian Saulsberry fatally shot in Memphis

Edmonton Elks player Christian Saulsberry was fatally shot in Memphis

Edmonton Elks wide receiver and kick returner Christian Saulsberry was shot and killed in Memphis on Saturday.

According to the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department, Saulsberry was shot in the leg and abdomen while at a birthday party.

He turned 25 on Monday.

The team released a statement:

EARLY SATURDAY MORNING, THE EDMONTON ELKS WERE DEVASTATED TO LEARN OF THE DEATH OF RUNNING BACK CHRISTIAN SAULSBERRY AFTER HE WAS SHOT IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. FIRST AND FOREMOST, OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY DURING THIS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TIME. OUR CONDOLENCES ARE ALSO EXTENDED TO HIS FRIENDS, INCLUDING THE MANY TEAMMATES AND COACHES BOTH HERE IN EDMONTON AND ELSEWHERE, THAT HE IMPACTED THROUGHOUT HIS FOOTBALL CAREER.

CHRISTIAN’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR FOOTBALL TEAM BOTH ON THE FIELD AND IN OUR LOCKER ROOM WERE SIGNIFICANT DURING HIS ONE SEASON WITH THE GREEN AND GOLD. HIS POSITIVITY AND ENERGY FOR LIFE WILL BE DEARLY MISSED.

Saulsberry, a native of South Haven, Miss., played in eight games for Edmonton in 2022.  In his lone CFL season, Saulsberry was a return specialist for the Elks. He had 635 yards on kickoff returns and 235 punt return yards.

Saulsberry was a two-time All Gulf South Conference selection at West Alabama, where he led the team with 1,223 all-purpose yards during his senior season in 2019.

Stampeders’ Peyton Logan returns missed FG 122 yards for touchdown

Calgary’s Peyton Logan with a long, long return of a missed field goal

The Calgary Stampeders put on a highlight show against the Edmonton Elks on Wednesday.

They scored on offense, defense, and in a spectacular manner on special teams.

Peyton Logan corrals the missed field goal deep in the end zone and takes off rather than conceding a rouge, which would have given Edmonton one point.

One-hundred and twenty-two yards later Logan’s decision proved successful.

And that opened the floodgates en route to Calgary’s 49-6 victory over Edmonton.

The rain actually delayed the game for an hour.

In case you were wondering the 122-yard return of the missed field goal was not a CFL record.

  • 131 – Boyd Carter/Dave Mann (1958) (Carter for 15 yards, then lateral to Mann for 116 yards and TD)
  • 130 – Ken Hinton (1977)

There has been a quartet of 129-yard returns. They were by Saskatchewan’s Tristan Jackson in 2012 among others.

Former Tiger cut by pro team after joining new league

A former Clemson wide receiver was cut by a professional team this week now that he is playing in a new league. The Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League announced Tuesday they have released Martavis Bryant. Bryant’s release came just a few …

A former Clemson wide receiver was cut by a professional team this week now that he is playing in a new league.

The Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League announced Tuesday they have released Martavis Bryant. Bryant’s release came just a few days after he joined the Beasts, a team in the Fan Controlled Football league.

Bryant never saw any game action with the Elks after signing with the team in February. The former Tiger and NFL wideout’s rights were owned by the Toronto Argonauts in 2021, when he spent the season on the club’s suspended list after not reporting to training camp.

Bryant most recently played in the NFL in 2018 with the then-Oakland Raiders and was suspended indefinitely by the league that season after repeated violations of the league’s substance abuse policy.

Originally a fourth-round pick (118th overall) in the 2014 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bryant tallied 145 catches for 2,183 receiving yards and 17 touchdowns while playing for the Steelers and the Raiders from 2014-18.

The Calhoun Falls, S.C. native played at Clemson from 2011-13, recording 61 receptions for 1,354 yards and 13 touchdowns along with a 17-yard carry and 291 yards on 14 kickoff returns over 37 games (13 starts) in his career. As a junior in 2013, he had 42 receptions for 828 yards and seven touchdowns along with two kickoff returns for 36 yards over 13 games (11 starts).

–Photo for this article courtesy of USA Today Sports Images 

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Mind-boggling barbell blackflip by CFL wideout Shai Ross

Astonishing acrobatics and strength by CFL WR Shai ROss

See is believing and sometimes it is still hard to digest what you have viewed.

Shai Ross is an Edmonton Elk wide receiver. He played college ball at Manitoba and apparently has incredible strength.

Watch the below video and check out how Ross lifts the barbell with the weights on it and somehow manages to do a backflip.

Former Tiger gets another chance in pro football

A former Clemson and NFL wide receiver has landed with a new professional football team. The Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League announced this week they have signed Martavis Bryant. Bryant’s rights were owned the Toronto Argonauts in …

A former Clemson and NFL wide receiver has landed with a new professional football team.

The Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League announced this week they have signed Martavis Bryant.

Bryant’s rights were owned the Toronto Argonauts in 2021, when he spent the season on the club’s suspended list after not reporting to training camp. He most recently played in the NFL in 2018 with the then-Oakland Raiders and was suspended indefinitely by the league that season after repeated violations of the league’s substance abuse policy.

Originally a fourth-round pick (118th overall) in the 2014 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bryant tallied 145 catches for 2,183 receiving yards and 17 touchdowns as a member of both the Steelers and the Raiders from 2014-18.

The Calhoun Falls, S.C. native played at Clemson from 2011-13, recording 61 receptions for 1,354 yards and 13 touchdowns along with a 17-yard carry and 291 yards on 14 kickoff returns over 37 games (13 starts) in his career. As a junior in 2013, he had 42 receptions for 828 yards and seven touchdowns along with two kickoff returns for 36 yards over 13 games (11 starts).

–Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports Images

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Jalin Marshall signs with second professional league in three weeks

Jalin Marshall signs with second professional league in three weeks #GoBucks #CFL #GoElks

Former Ohio State receiver and return man, Jalin Marshall, has had a busy 2022 as today he signed with his second professional team in a second professional football league. Marshall will be joining his former quarterback J.T. Barrett up north in the Canadian Football League with the Edmonton Elks.

Marshall has taken this opportunity over playing for the Massachusetts Pirates of the Indoor Football League, which he signed with just three weeks earlier on January 19th.

Unlike Barrett, Marshall already had some CFL experience as he has been with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats since the 2019 season, where he appeared in eight games and accounted for eight receptions for 139 yards. Big things were expected from Marshall in 2020 as the leading receiver for Hamilton left to the NFL and Marshall seemingly understood the nuances of the game. However, COVID-19 forced the league to cancel its season.

The 2021 season was less than spectacular for Marshall. He appeared in the season opener and earned two receptions for 20 yards but disappeared from the line-up for the rest of the season. However, we have all seen his athletic ability and Marshall can certainly make an impact.

Marshall will be joining a receiving room that features CFL legend Derel Walker, who some may remember from his time at Texas A&M, Tevaun Smith from Iowa, and Armanti Edwards who will always be remembered as the quarterback for Appalachian State when it defeated Michigan.

It should be noted that Marshall is still only 26-years old and has spent time with the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders in the NFL, as well as the Orlando Apollos of the now-defunct Alliance of American Football (AAF).

We’ll keep an eye on Marshall and what he can do up in Canada, eh? Stay tuned.

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J. T. Barrett signs with the CFL

J. T. Barrett signs with the CFL #GoBucks

J.T. Barrett is one of the most decorated quarterbacks in the history of Ohio State football winning a National Championship in 2015, the Chicago Tribune Silver Football, which is the Big Ten MVP in 2016 and winning the Grise-Brees Quarterback of the Year Award for the Big three times in 2014, 2016 and 2017.

The former All-American was the definition of a leader on and off the field and at only 27 years old has plenty of juice left in his football tank. Barrett has had an intriguing professional career first stopping with the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent for 2018 and 2019 and then with the Seattle Seahawks and back to the New Orleans Saints. He most recently spent time with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2020. Barrett also played in The Spring League with the Alphas.

Barrett is getting another opportunity and this time it is North of the border in the Canadian Football League with the Edmonton Elks, formerly the Eskimos. Barrett will be joining an interesting quarterback room with former Oklahoma State gunslinger, Taylor Cornelius and Oregon starter, Dakota Prukop.

Plenty of former Buckeye gunslingers have played up North including Troy Smith with the Montreal Alouettes, Stanley Jackson with the Montreal Alouettes and the Toronto Argonauts and of course the iconic Art Schlichter with the Ottawa Roughriders. Barrett will be the first former Buckeye to don the colors of the newly refurbished Edmonton Elks. We wish J.T. Barrett good luck and think this is a great landing spot for him to continue his career.