{"id":859979,"date":"2026-09-25T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859979\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:48:15","slug":"thursday-night-football-falcons-cb-billy-bowman-will-make-his-2026-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859979\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Night Football: Falcons CB Billy Bowman will make his 2026 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Penix isn\u2019t the only Falcon making his season debut tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Falcons cornerback Billy Bowman Jr. is active for Thursday Night Football. The team listed him as questionable with the Achilles injury that ended his 2025 season in a Week 12 practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons need Bowman this week with starting corner A.J. Terrell Jr. landing on injured reserve with a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s other inactives are quarterback Cooper Rush, quarterback Jack Strand, defensive back Malcolm DeWalt IV, defensive back Robert Longerbeam, defensive end Samson Ebukam (hamstring) and offensive lineman Ethan Onianwa.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers\u2019 inactives are wide receiver Jayden Reed (neck), offensive tackle Zach Bako-Bewele (knee), offensive guard Aaron Banks (knee\/toe), defensive tackle Warren Brinson (calf) and defensive tackle Anthony Campbell (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>Nose tackle Javon Hargrave (knee\/concussion) is active after three limited practices and a questionable designation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Penix isn\u2019t the only Falcon making his season debut tonight. Falcons cornerback Billy Bowman Jr. is active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-859979","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\/859979","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=859979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}