{"id":24784,"date":"2025-07-26T05:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24784\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:31:17","slug":"falcons-darnell-mooney-to-miss-several-weeks-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24784\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons’ Darnell Mooney to miss several weeks with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marc RaimondiJul 25, 2025, 09:51 PM ET<\/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

The Atlanta Falcons<\/a> will be without one of their top wide receivers in the short term.<\/p>\n

Darnell Mooney<\/a> has a shoulder injury and will be out for several weeks, the team announced Friday night.<\/p>\n

In the Falcons’ first practice of training camp Thursday, Mooney dove for a deep Michael Penix Jr<\/a>. pass down the right sideline during 11-on-11 work and stayed on the ground for a few seconds before getting up. Mooney walked off the field with a trainer afterward, with his helmet in hand, and did not return.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

Mooney has been the team’s No. 2 wide receiver behind Drake London<\/a> since being signed by Atlanta in the 2024 offseason from the Chicago Bears<\/a>. Mooney, 27, had 106 catches for 992 yards and a career-high five touchdowns last year.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Falcons signed free agent wide receiver DJ Chark<\/a>, who had most recently played with the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>. Chark, a 2018 second-round pick, brings speed and experience. He has 51 career starts and has played with four different teams.<\/p>\n

Chark, 28, is likely to join London and Ray-Ray McCloud III<\/a> as starters while Mooney is out, though KhaDarel Hodge<\/a> and Casey Washington<\/a> could be in the mix for reps as well.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Adam Schefter contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc RaimondiJul 25, 2025, 09:51 PM ET CloseMarc Raimondi’s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-24784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}