{"id":237878,"date":"2025-10-20T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237878\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:30:07","slug":"raheem-morris-michael-penix-jr-said-he-was-ok-to-finish-will-be-evaluated-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237878\/","title":{"rendered":"Raheem Morris: Michael Penix Jr. said he was OK to finish, will be evaluated on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toward the end of Atlanta\u2019s loss to San Francisco on Sunday night, quarterback Michael Penix Jr. took low hits on multiple plays. <\/p>\n<p>The NBC broadcast also showed Penix heading into the sideline medical tent for evaluation. <\/p>\n<p>Falcons head coach Raheem Morris told reporters that he\u2019s not yet sure if Penix suffered an injury, though the young quarterback said he was OK. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we\u2019ve got to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GLjAnKhYGhk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">let him go get evaluated<\/a>,\u201d Morris said in his postgame press conference. \u201cHe gave me the thumbs up on the sideline when we were asking him, so he was OK to finish. We\u2019ll see where he is tomorrow.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Penix ended Sunday\u2019s game 21-of-38 for 241 yards with a touchdown and a lost fumble.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cousins is Atlanta\u2019s backup and would presumably start Week 8 against the Dolphins if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toward the end of Atlanta\u2019s loss to San Francisco on Sunday night, quarterback Michael Penix Jr. took low&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-237878","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\/237878","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=237878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}