{"id":82471,"date":"2025-11-19T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/falcons-penix-jr-to-miss-season-with-knee-injury-acl\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:08:19","slug":"falcons-penix-jr-to-miss-season-with-knee-injury-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/falcons-penix-jr-to-miss-season-with-knee-injury-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons&#8217; Penix Jr. to miss season with knee injury: ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2013 Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr. will undergo season-ending surgery to repair the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by the Falcons on Wednesday, two days after reporting that Penix would be placed on the injured reserve list and would miss at least four games. The team detailed that Penix is suffering from a partial ligament tear in his knee.<\/p>\n<p>Penix&#8217;s absence leaves veteran Kirk Cousins as the starter for the rest of the season. The Falcons, with a 3-7 record, are preparing to face New Orleans on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Penix suffered the injury during Sunday&#8217;s overtime loss against Carolina, extending the Falcons&#8217; losing streak to five games.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Raheem Morris is scheduled to speak with reporters later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>During his university years, Penix underwent two ACL surgeries on his right knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2013 Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr. will undergo season-ending surgery to repair the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee. The announcement was made by the Falcons on Wednesday, two days after reporting that Penix would be placed on the injured reserve list and would miss at least four games. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2651,6354,290,3882],"class_list":{"0":"post-82471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-acl","9":"tag-falcons","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-michael-penix-jr"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82471","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=82471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}