{"id":442274,"date":"2026-02-01T05:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442274\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:58:10","slug":"falcons-to-hire-alex-van-pelt-as-qb-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442274\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons to hire Alex Van Pelt as QB coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Stefanski has made another addition to his coaching staff in Atlanta. <\/p>\n<p>Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Falcons <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2017641622146580800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">are hiring<\/a> Alex Van Pelt as their quarterbacks coach. Van Pelt was a senior offensive assistant with the Rams during the 2025 season. <\/p>\n<p>Van Pelt worked on Stefanski\u2019s Browns staff from 2020-2023 as the offensive coordinator and he was also the quarterbacks coach in his final season with Cleveland. He was succeeded by Ken Dorsey and was replaced by Tommy Rees in 2025. Rees will also be the coordinator in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Van Pelt was the Patriots\u2019 offensive coordinator in 2024 and he\u2019s also coached quarterbacks with the Bengals, Packers, Buccaneers and Bills over the course of his coaching career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Stefanski has made another addition to his coaching staff in Atlanta. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-442274","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\/442274","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=442274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}