{"id":803548,"date":"2026-08-05T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:44:08","slug":"tua-tagovailoa-on-training-camp-with-michael-penix-its-definitely-a-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803548\/","title":{"rendered":"Tua Tagovailoa on training camp with Michael Penix: &#8220;It&#8217;s definitely a competition&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falcons quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa and Michael Penix are both limited by injuries in training camp, but that isn\u2019t stopping them from competing for the starting job.<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa said on NFL Network that while he rests an injured back and Penix rehabs the torn ACL he suffered in November, they continue to compete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI view it as a competition. I understand he can\u2019t take some team reps right now because of what he\u2019s going through, but he\u2019s still being able to compete in seven-on-seven, he\u2019s still able to go through some plays,\u201d Tagovailoa said. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa said his own back injury won\u2019t limit him for much longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing too serious, just a caution kind of thing where we\u2019re not rushing it. It was just a flare-up, nothing big, not anything long-term. We\u2019ll be fine,\u201d Tagovailoa said.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons have to hope at least one of their quarterbacks will be 100 percent when they open the season on September 13 against the Steelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falcons quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa and Michael Penix are both limited by injuries in training camp, but that isn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-803548","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\/803548","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=803548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}