{"id":805869,"date":"2026-08-07T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:54:12","slug":"falcons-release-2022-second-round-pick-troy-andersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805869\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons release 2022 second-round pick Troy Andersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons announced the release of linebacker Troy Andersen on Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Andersen was a second-round pick in 2022 after playing linebacker, running back and quarterback while at Montana State and he played in every game as a rookie. He only played two games in 2023 due to shoulder and pectoral injuries, however, and a 2024 knee injury wound up keeping him out for all of the 2025 season as well. <\/p>\n<p>The injuries limited Andersen to 26 total games with the Falcons. He had 135 tackles, five tackles for loss, an interception return for a touchdown, a half-sack, and a forced fumble in those appearances. <\/p>\n<p>The Falcons signed wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson to fill the open roster spot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons announced the release of linebacker Troy Andersen on Friday morning. Andersen was a second-round pick in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-805869","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\/805869","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=805869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}