he did earn NFC Offensive Player of the Week<\/a> \u2013 he has admittedly been frustrated stuck on the sideline.<\/p>\n“I just try to be the best teammate that I can possibly be,” London said. “Yeah, obviously, it hurt. You want to be out there, knowing you can contribute. But I don’t want to be a hindrance to the team by trying to be a tough guy and play.”<\/p>\n
London also missed the Falcons’ Week 8 loss to the Miami Dolphins because of a hip injury. He had been a full participant in Wednesday and Thursday practices but limited Friday. He entered with a questionable game status and was ruled out with the inactives list on game day.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been scratching and clawing to play every game this season,” London said. “A lot of people don’t know that, but the season hasn’t been too well on my body. So, could be a blessing in disguise that this happened. I don’t know, but just trying to fight back and get out there on the field.”<\/p>\n
London had previously only ever missed one game in a single season since being drafted by the Falcons in 2022, and that was in 2023 due to a groin injury. This is a new experience in the pros for the former first-round pick.<\/p>\n
“I have very, very big aspirations, especially when it comes to injuries and stuff like that,” he said. “I want to get back out there quick as possible. But everything is going smoothly. I’ve been making good strides and leaps. That’s all I can ask for.”<\/p>\n
The fact that the Falcons are eliminated from the playoffs doesn’t sway London’s opinion on the matter. There are three games remaining on the schedule. That’s three opportunities to do what he loves.<\/p>\n
“I want to play as much football as I possibly can,” London said, “until it’s done for this year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Drake London said Thursday he believes he’ll play in the Atlanta Falcons’ Week 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[176880,57760,3,99,28780],"class_list":{"0":"post-357568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons-at-arizona-cardinals-2025-reg-16","9":"tag-drake-london","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-terrin-waack"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357568","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=357568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}