{"id":237586,"date":"2025-07-26T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/237586\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:19:21","slug":"falcons-wr-darnell-mooney-to-miss-time-with-shoulder-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/237586\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons WR Darnell Mooney to miss time with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Darnell Mooney will be out a few weeks after injuring a shoulder Thursday during the team&#8217;s first official practice.<\/p>\n<p>Mooney was hurt diving to catch a long pass from quarterback Michael Penix Jr. Mooney, who had 64 receptions for 992 yards and five touchdowns during his first season with Atlanta a year ago, walked off the field with trainers and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mooney missed Atlanta&#8217;s season finale with a shoulder injury. It&#8217;s unclear whether he re-injured the same shoulder Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons reportedly signed veteran wide receiver DJ Chark earlier Friday, before the nature of Mooney&#8217;s injury was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta&#8217;s receiving corps is led by Mooney and Drake London, who is coming off a the first 100-catch season of his career in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Darnell Mooney will be out a few weeks after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,6709,15075,4130,224,7,6,5027,1473],"class_list":{"0":"post-237586","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-darnell-mooney","12":"tag-dj-chark","13":"tag-drake-london","14":"tag-falcons","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-shoulder-injury","18":"tag-wide-receiver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114919503592033031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237586","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=237586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}