{"id":265868,"date":"2025-08-06T08:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/265868\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:13:25","slug":"falcons-wr-darnell-mooney-to-miss-time-with-shoulder-injury-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/265868\/","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\u2019s 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>Mooney missed Atlanta\u2019s season finale with a shoulder injury. It\u2019s 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\u2019s injury was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta\u2019s 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 class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":265869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[13781,223,254,2554,6709,4130,224,7,4645,629,1879,6,498,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-265868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-athlete-injuries","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-darnell-mooney","13":"tag-drake-london","14":"tag-falcons","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-ga-state-wire","17":"tag-georgia","18":"tag-michael-penix-jr","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nfl-football","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114980821665732487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265868","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=265868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}