{"id":265247,"date":"2025-08-06T02:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/265247\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T02:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:37:20","slug":"falcons-catch-break-as-vikings-wr-suspended-for-week-2-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/265247\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons catch break as Vikings WR suspended for Week 2 matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlanta Falcons<\/a>‘ 2025 schedule<\/a> is no cakewalk, especially during the first half of the season. Four of their first five games are against teams that made the playoffs in 2024. However, one of those teams — the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> — was just dealt a major blow.<\/p>\n

The NFL has suspended Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison for the first three games of the season for violating the league’s “substances of abuse” policy, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. That means Addison will miss his team’s Week 2 matchup against the Falcons on Sunday night football.<\/p>\n

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The former first-round pick has been a quality No. 2 option to Vikings star Justin Jefferson over the last two seasons. Addison’s suspension also means quarterback J.J. McCarthy won’t have one of his top weapons in his second career start.<\/p>\n

Addison recorded 70 catches for 911 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns as a rookie in 2023. Last season, the 23-year-old finished with 63 catches for 875 receiving yards and nine touchdowns as the Vikings went 14-3.<\/p>\n

Minnesota did not re-sign quarterback Sam Darnold after his breakout year — 4,319 passing yards and 35 touchdowns — so McCarthy could take over in 2025. The Falcons passed on the former Michigan quarterback in favor of Penix in the 2024 NFL draft despite signing Kirk Cousins to a four-year contract in free agency.<\/p>\n

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Check out the Falcons’ updated 90-man roster<\/a> as they prepare for Friday’s preseason opener against the Detroit Lions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Falcons Wire: Falcons vs. Vikings: Jordan Addison suspended for Week 2 SNF matchup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons‘ 2025 schedule is no cakewalk, especially during the first half of the season. Four of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[4191,223,254,2554,692,113,224,7,1519,8265,2780,294,259,6,1878,2661,116],"class_list":{"0":"post-265247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-adam-schefter","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-detroit-lions","14":"tag-falcons","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-j-j-mccarthy","17":"tag-jordan-addison","18":"tag-justin-jefferson","19":"tag-kirk-cousins","20":"tag-minnesota-vikings","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-sam-darnold","23":"tag-the-falcons","24":"tag-the-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114979500731084600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265247","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=265247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}