{"id":179448,"date":"2025-07-03T23:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179448\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T23:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:41:13","slug":"latest-on-falcons-lb-situation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179448\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Falcons’ LB Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kaden Elliss<\/a>\u00a0is in line to once again operate as a full-time linebacker starter for the Falcons in 2025. It remains to be seen who will occupy the other first-team role at that spot. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Atlanta added\u00a0Divine Deablo<\/a>\u00a0on a two-year, $14MM<\/a> pact in free agency. The former Raider made 42 starts while playing out his rookie contract, handling a regular defensive role over each of the past three seasons. That could continue during his debut Atlanta campaign.<\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s Marc Raimondi writes<\/a> head coach\u00a0Raheem Morris\u00a0has been impressed with Deablo so far. The 26-year-old is candidate to start alongside Elliss in 2025, with Deablo also a candidate at this point to wear the green dot as the defense\u2019s signal-caller. His best season came in 2023, with 106 tackles, one sack and one fumble recovery. A repeat of that production would certainly help Deablo\u2019s chances of maintaining a full-time starting gig.<\/p>\n

In other Falcons linebacker news, the status of\u00a0Troy Andersen<\/a>\u00a0remains unclear at this point. The 26-year-old was limited to just two games in 2023 due to shoulder and pectoral injuries<\/a>. He once again finished the campaign on injured reserve last season after seven games played. Andersen\u2019s situation has not been specifically updated recently, but Morris said in June the Falcons had a few players they would be \u201cextremely cautious\u201d with.<\/p>\n

Will McFadden of the team\u2019s website notes<\/a> Andersen can be put in that category. The Montana State product is nevertheless expected to be available at some point this season, per McFadden, with Week 1 not out of the question. When healthy, though, Andersen may not be in line for the starting spot he appeared to be on track to handle at the start of the 2023 campaign. As a pending free agent, his showing this year will be critical, and a cautious approach on the recovery front is an understandable one for team and player.<\/p>\n

Elliss has been with the Falcons since 2023 after a four-year run with the Saints. He has eclipsed 120 tackles in both of his Falcons campaigns, adding nine sacks over that span. Expectations will remain high for the coming campaign as a result, but it will be interesting to see how the team proceeds with respect to who will join him as a starting linebacker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaden Elliss\u00a0is in line to once again operate as a full-time linebacker starter for the Falcons in 2025.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,9592,224,7,6,11417],"class_list":{"0":"post-179448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-divine-deablo","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-troy-andersen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114791952470186773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}