{"id":206060,"date":"2025-10-11T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206060\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:53:08","slug":"falcons-rule-wr-darnell-mooney-hamstring-out-vs-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206060\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons rule WR Darnell Mooney (hamstring) out vs. Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marc RaimondiOct 12, 2025, 05:37 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Marc Raimondi’s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it wasn’t his first year at ESPN. He joined the company in 2019 and was a top combat sports reporter. He also covered professional wrestling and wrote the book “Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Pro Wrestling’s New World Order Changed America,” which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2025. Raimondi also worked for the New York Post and Newsday, beginning in 2009, covering high school and college sports, plus the NFL, NFL, MLB and NHL.<\/p>\n

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons<\/a> will be without wide receiver Darnell Mooney<\/a> for a second time this season.<\/p>\n

Mooney, the Falcons’ No. 2 wide receiver, has been ruled out for Week 6 due to a hamstring injury, the team announced Saturday. The Falcons host the Buffalo Bills<\/a> on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n

Mooney injured the hamstring in the team’s win over the Washington Commanders<\/a> in Week 4. Atlanta had a bye last week. This is Mooney’s second injury of the summer and early fall. He also injured his right shoulder diving for a Michael Penix Jr<\/a>. pass on the very first day of training camp July 24. Mooney missed all of camp and Week 1 due to that injury.<\/p>\n

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The Falcons are expected to ask for more from second-year wide receiver Casey Washington<\/a> with Mooney out, in addition to other starters Drake London<\/a>, Ray Ray McCloud III and tight end Kyle Pitts.<\/p>\n

Mooney has just seven catches for 79 yards in three games this season. Last year, he had 64 catches for 992 yards and a career-high five touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Falcons top cornerback AJ Terrell, who missed the Commanders game with a hamstring injury, carries no injury designation heading for Week 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc RaimondiOct 12, 2025, 05:37 AM CloseMarc Raimondi’s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it wasn’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-206060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}