Elks add American kicker with NFL experience to training camp roster
Green Bay Packers placekicker Brayden Narveson (44) kicks for a field goal during the first half of an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, in Inglewood, Calif.
A new field-goal kicker is on the scene at Commonwealth Stadium.
The Edmonton Elks signed Brayden Narveson on Wednesday, releasing Campbell Fair in a corresponding move, the Canadian Football League club said in a media release.
The 25-year-old Narveson, an American, played in the National Football League last season, suiting up in six games for the Green Bay Packers and one for the Tennessee Titans.
Fair, a Canadian from Oakville, Ont., who played college football at the University of Ottawa, is a former 2023 draft pick of the Calgary Stampeders who joined the Elks' practice roster in September. He had been battling fellow Canadian Vincent Blanchard, who was signed to the team's practice roster in October and re-upped with the Elks this month, for 2025 kicking duties.
Zach Mathis, Marquel Lee
Edmonton Elks' Zach Mathis, left, is tackled by Calgary Stampeders' Marquel Lee during first half CFL preseason football action in Calgary, Saturday, May 24, 2025.
(Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
Blanchard kicked a 40-yard field goal in the Elks' first preseason action of the season on Saturday in a 31-4 loss to the host Stampeders. Edmonton returns to CFL exhibition action on Friday against the visiting B.C. Lions.
Narveson – a native of Scottsdale, Ariz., and an alumnus of North Carolina State, Western Kentucky and Iowa State – made the Titans roster out of training camp as an undrafted rookie in 2024, handling almost all their kicking duties in the preseason last summer and drilling the second-longest field goal in NFL exhibition play: a 59-yarder during Tennessee's second warmup test against the Seattle Seahawks. He made seven of eight field goals in preseason, his only miss coming from 58 yards.
The Titans waived him before the season started and was claimed by the Packers, for whom Narveson handled field-goal duties for their first six games of the season. Green Bay waived Narveson in mid October after he went 12-of-17 in field-goal attempts.
He re-joined the Titans in early December and played for them Dec. 22 in a 38-30 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, in which he missed his lone field-goal attempt and converted two touchdowns. He was released by the Titans the next day.
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