{"id":139854,"date":"2025-09-07T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139854\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:38:08","slug":"falcons-wr-darnell-mooney-shoulder-inactive-vs-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139854\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons WR Darnell Mooney (shoulder) inactive vs. Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marc RaimondiSep 7, 2025, 11:49 AM 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

ATLANTA — Falcons<\/a> wide receiver Darnell Mooney<\/a> is inactive for the team’s Week 1 game against the division rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mooney injured his right shoulder July 24 during the first practice of training camp. He made a dive for a Michael Penix Jr.<\/a> pass and took a hard landing. Mooney got up gingerly and left the field with a trainer.<\/p>\n

At that point, coach Raheem Morris said Mooney would be out for “a couple of weeks.” Mooney returned to practice a little over a week ago and was listed as limited this week.<\/p>\n

Last season, Mooney injured the same shoulder and did not play in the team’s Week 18 game against the Carolina Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mooney, 27, had 64 catches for 992 yards and a career-high five touchdowns last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc RaimondiSep 7, 2025, 11:49 AM ET CloseMarc Raimondi’s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-139854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}