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CTV News
3 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
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.
USA Today
06-02-2025
- Health
- USA Today
Ex-Titan Brayden Narveson raising awareness for Type 1 diabetes
Former Tennessee Titans kicker Brayden Narveson spent time with the team on two different occasions in 2024. He first joined the Titans as an undrafted free agent and spent the summer with the team before being waived as part of roster cuts. Then, he rejoined the team after Nick Folk was injured, only to be released after missing a field goal. This week, Narveson is spending time at the Super Bowl festivities in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he is raising awareness for Type 1 diabetes and Omnipod. As a Type 1 diabetic, Narveson uses Omnipod to regulate his glucose. From #SuperBowlLIX : Just chatted with Brayden Narveson, who kicked a 59-yard FG & game-winning FG for the @Titans in the preseason. He later rejoined the team after a stint w the @packers. A Type 1 diabetic, he's in New Orleans raising awareness for diabetes and @myomnipod. — Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) February 5, 2025 First, Narveson was asked what he would say to kids who receive a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis. 'Yeah, growing up I didn't really have somebody to kind of point me in the direction of 'go do this, go do this' or 'you can do this' or 'you can't' and I just want to be that person for people and let youngsters know and let kids know that you can do whatever you want to do,' Narveson said. 'If you have Type 1 diabetes, it's not going to stop you, if you have a medical condition, whatever you have, don't let it stop you. If you work hard at anything you want to do, you can make it happen.' He goes on to discuss how the Omnipod works and says that it has been fantastic for him, allowing him to focus on football and not worry about when he needs insulin. Type 1 diabetes affects roughly one in 300 kids by age 18. For more information on Type 1 diabetes, you can visit the American Diabetes Association, and for more information on Omnipod, you can visit their website.
