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Marc RaimondiAug 23, 2025, 02:00 PM<\/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 Atlanta Falcons<\/a> coach Raheem Morris said Friday night that right tackle Kaleb McGary<\/a> will miss “significant time” with an injury he suffered Wednesday in practice.<\/p>\n Speaking after the team’s 31-13 preseason loss<\/a> to the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> in Arlington, Texas, Morris said McGary could be headed to injured reserve. The Falcons could put two players on IR without placing them on the 53-man roster nor having them go through waivers.<\/p>\n In that instance, McGary would have to miss at least the first four games of the season.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n McGary appeared to injure his leg before the beginning of the team’s 11-on-11 period Wednesday. He was carted off the field and was visibly favoring what looked to be his left leg as he was assisted into the building by an athletic trainer.<\/p>\n McGary had a scope on his left ankle in the offseason, which kept him out of the team’s spring practices.<\/p>\n The Falcons now have a sizable hole on that side of the offensive line, which must protect the blindside of second-year quarterback Michael Penix Jr<\/a>. McGary’s backup, Storm Norton<\/a>, had ankle surgery Tuesday and will miss six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n Versatile offensive linemen Elijah Wilkinson<\/a> replaced McGary at right tackle during practice Thursday. He started 19 games at the position for the Denver Broncos<\/a> in 2019 and 2020. Wilkinson also started nine games for the Falcons in 2022 — at left guard.<\/p>\n McGary, 30, is entering his seventh season as the Falcons’ starting right tackle. The first-round pick from 2019 signed a two-year, $30 million contract extension with Atlanta earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc RaimondiAug 23, 2025, 02:00 PM CloseMarc Raimondi’s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it wasn’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-89147","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\/89147","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=89147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}