{"id":438605,"date":"2023-06-26T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T21:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438605"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:57:33","slug":"elks-discharges-qb-loksley-qb-ford-to-return-to-active-squad","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/elks-discharges-qb-loksley-qb-ford-to-return-to-active-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks discharges QB Loksley; QB Ford to return to active squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Elks is dismissing the American QB Kai Locksley and promoting Canadian quarterback Tre Ford to the active squad today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Edmonton Elks released American quarterback Kai Locksley and adding QB Tre Ford to the active roster this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EdmontonElks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EdmontonElks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/canadianfootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#canadianfootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/treford?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#treford<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/yeg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#yeg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qTuYKcWMB2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qTuYKcWMB2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Sports &amp; Entertainment Express (@SE_Express20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SE_Express20\/status\/1673431105893179392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Locksley (26) became part of the Elks in 2022. He played in the Week 3, 43-31 defeat to the Toronto Argonauts, as he fumbled on his only offensive snap in the match.<\/p>\n<p>Ford, who was drafted in the 2022 CFL Draft with the 8<sup>th<\/sup> overall pick, had an injury in his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> career start. When he healed, he would go on to play 10 matches during the 2022 campaign, as he threw for 461 yards and had 2 TDs.<\/p>\n<p>Kai was put on the franchise 1-match injury list but will be available for Edmonton&#8217;s next clash in the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Elks is dismissing the American QB Kai Locksley and promoting Canadian quarterback Tre Ford to the active squad today. The Edmonton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438606,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[20141,20142,20143],"acf":{"announce":"The Canadian quarterback Ford returns to the active roster.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438605"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438605"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}