FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 The Atlanta Falcons host the Detroit Lions on Friday inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium for their 2025 preseason game.<\/p>\n
While Friday will mark the Falcons’ first exhibition showing, the Lions played in the Hall of Fame game last Thursday in Canton, Ohio. Detroit lost, 34-7, to the Los Angeles Chargers at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.<\/p>\n
Atlanta head coach Raheem Morris has said neither<\/a> starting quarterback Michael Penix Jr. nor backup quarterback Kirk Cousins will play Friday. Rookies, however, will<\/a>. That includes edge rusher Jalon Walker and James Pearce Jr., who were the Falcons’ first-round draft picks in April. So, there are potential first-team players looking to make their unofficial 2025 debut.<\/p>\n Below are all the different ways to follow the Falcons’ first preseason game live:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 The Atlanta Falcons host the Detroit Lions on Friday inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium for their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23699,52166,7,88,6,8896,13724],"class_list":{"0":"post-273845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2025-training-camp","9":"tag-detroit-lions-at-atlanta-falcons-2025-pre-1","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-training-camp","14":"tag-where-to-watch"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114997879348686501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273845","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=273845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}