{"id":34172,"date":"2025-09-13T16:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/falcons-younghoe-koo-star-kicker-demoted-after-crucial-misses\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:36:37","slug":"falcons-younghoe-koo-star-kicker-demoted-after-crucial-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/falcons-younghoe-koo-star-kicker-demoted-after-crucial-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons: Younghoe Koo, star kicker, demoted after crucial misses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Falcons Back Younghoe Koo: Parker Romo Takes on Kicker Role<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Atlanta Falcons have decided to make a significant change to their roster. The team announced this Saturday that Younghoe Koo, their long-time starting kicker, has been benched for Sunday night&#8217;s game against the Minnesota Vikings.\n\nInstead, Parker Romo has been promoted from the practice squad. The Falcons signed Romo, a Georgia native who kicked for the Minnesota Vikings last season, on Tuesday.\n\nThe decision comes after Koo missed a 44-yard field goal attempt in the final seconds of last week&#8217;s game, which would have tied the score against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\n\nKoo only made 2 of 3 field goals against the Buccaneers, but one bounced off the right post.\n\nKoo, who was also sidelined last season due to a hip injury, has underperformed, with only 12 of 20 field goals made in his last nine games.\n\nAt 31 years old, Koo missed nine field goals last year, achieving only 73.5%, his worst percentage since becoming the Falcons&#8217; starting kicker in 2019.\n\nRomo, 28 years old, had a notable performance last year, scoring 11 of 12 field goals in four games for Minnesota, his first opportunity in the NFL.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falcons Back Younghoe Koo: Parker Romo Takes on Kicker Role The Atlanta Falcons have decided to make a significant change to their roster. The team announced this Saturday that Younghoe Koo, their long-time starting kicker, has been benched for Sunday night&#8217;s game against the Minnesota Vikings. Instead, Parker Romo has been promoted from the practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6354,62,8685,8686],"class_list":{"0":"post-34172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-falcons","9":"tag-kicker","10":"tag-koo","11":"tag-romo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}