{"id":795236,"date":"2026-07-31T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795236\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:46:14","slug":"undrafted-rookie-qb-jack-strand-working-with-falcons-first-team-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795236\/","title":{"rendered":"Undrafted rookie QB Jack Strand working with Falcons’ first-team offense"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, the Falcons signed Kirk Cousins in free agency and then drafted Michael Penix in the first round. They moved on from Cousins and signed veteran Tua Tagovailoa this offseason.<\/p>\n

Yet, it\u2019s Jack Strand currently running their offense.<\/p>\n

The undrafted rookie got a phone call from Falcons quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt the night before the first training camp practice. Van Pelt informed Strand that Tagovailoa would miss some time with a back injury and Penix was not cleared for team work, leaving Strand as the only quarterback on the roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think about it too much<\/a>,\u201d Strand said after Thursday\u2019s practice, via Will McFadden of the team website. \u201cI\u2019m coming into training camp and everything just trying to take it day by day. Keep attacking every day. Keep getting better every day, whether I\u2019m getting a bunch of reps or I\u2019m not getting as many reps. Whatever reps that I do get, whether it\u2019s in Indy, whether it\u2019s in RVA, whether it\u2019s in team, anything, I\u2019m just going to try to attack those reps and try to keep getting with those, and then also from watching the guys around me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Falcons have since signed veteran Cooper Rush, and Tagovailoa did some light throwing during the individual periods on Thursday. So, Strand might not have much longer with the first-team. <\/p>\n

But the former Minnesota State-Moorhead is focused on getting better every day, no matter where he is on the depth chart or in the rotation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that I\u2019ve been telling myself a ton: Be where your feet are. Enjoy the moment,\u201d Strand said. \u201cDon\u2019t look in the past. Don\u2019t dwell on any mistakes or any success that you might have had. Don\u2019t look to the future and wonder what\u2019s going to be happening in two weeks, in three weeks, in a couple of months or anything. Just be where your feet are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, the Falcons signed Kirk Cousins in free agency and then drafted Michael Penix in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-795236","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\/795236","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=795236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}