{"id":253010,"date":"2025-10-26T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/253010\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:39:08","slug":"falcons-drake-london-hip-michael-penix-jr-knee-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/253010\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons’ Drake London (hip), Michael Penix Jr. (knee) out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marc RaimondiOct 26, 2025, 11:48 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 Drake London<\/a> is inactive for Sunday’s game against the Miami Dolphins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

London had been listed as questionable Saturday with a hip issue. He was listed as a limited participant in practice Friday with a hip injury, but with no injury designation for the game.<\/p>\n

London, who leads the team in receiving yards (469) and receiving touchdowns (2), joins quarterback Michael Penix Jr<\/a>. in being inactive for Week 9. Kirk Cousins<\/a> is starting in place of Penix, who is dealing with a bone bruise in his left knee.<\/p>\n

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London, a fourth-year player, also dealt with a shoulder injury earlier this season, but didn’t miss a start. He had 1,271 yards receiving with 100 receptions and nine touchdowns catches last season, all career-high marks.<\/p>\n

Penix suffered a bone bruise in his left knee last weekend in a loss to the San Francisco 49ers<\/a>. He was a limited participant in practice all week and listed as questionable Friday.<\/p>\n

Falcons head coach Raheem Morris said Friday that Cousins took “significant” reps with the first-team offense this week in practice — and more snaps later in the week compared to earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc RaimondiOct 26, 2025, 11:48 AM ET CloseMarc Raimondi’s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-253010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253010","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=253010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}