{"id":279303,"date":"2025-08-11T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/279303\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:46:10","slug":"watch-every-snap-from-falcons-first-round-picks-in-preseason-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/279303\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Every snap from Falcons&#8217; first-round picks in preseason opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After another disappointing year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/falcons-sign-veteran-center-safety-204620952.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Falcons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> made it a point to upgrade one of the NFL&#8217;s worst pass rushes during the offseason. Not only did the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Falcons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Falcons<\/a> land Georgia edge <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/falcons-first-round-pick-among-161133641.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jalon Walker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalon Walker<\/a> with their first choice in the 2025 NFL draft, but they doubled down by trading up for Tennessee edge <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/5-takeaways-falcons-preseason-loss-101543750.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:James Pearce Jr;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Pearce Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two first-round selections made their NFL debut in Friday night&#8217;s preseason opener against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/dan-campbell-calls-raheem-morris-093103195.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Lions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a>. Neither player lit up the stat sheet, but there was still plenty to like. Pearce got after the quarterback and recorded three QB hurries.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>As for the snap counts, Walker played 19 snaps and Pearce played 18. If you want to see all of Pearce&#8217;s snaps from his preseason debut, then check out this Tweet below from Fantasy Pros&#8217; Nick Penticoff.<\/p>\n<p>Falcons rookie James Pearce&#8217;s preseason debut:<\/p>\n<p>Walker showed off his power but didn&#8217;t generate quite as much pressure in his preseason debut against Detroit. Penticoff also shared a video with all 19 of Walker&#8217;s defensive snaps on his Twitter account. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p>Falcons rookie Jalon Walker&#8217;s preseason debut:<\/p>\n<p>The pair combined for just one accredited tackle and three quarterback pressure attempts, but right now, their true measuring stick isn&#8217;t really on the stats sheet. As with the team&#8217;s other rookies, their job is to get used to the speed of the NFL game. which they seem to be doing fine thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Falcons Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefalconswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/falcons\/2025\/08\/11\/falcons-james-pearce-jalon-walker-nfl\/85604402007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Falcons: Jalon Walker, James Pearce preseason snaps;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Falcons: Jalon Walker, James Pearce preseason snaps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After another disappointing year, the Atlanta Falcons made it a point to upgrade one of the NFL&#8217;s worst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,113,224,7,1486,1497,6,4656,53832,49635,17686,1143,526],"class_list":{"0":"post-279303","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-detroit-lions","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-jalon-walker","15":"tag-james-pearce","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-preseason","18":"tag-nick-penticoff","19":"tag-preseason-debut","20":"tag-preseason-opener","21":"tag-snap","22":"tag-tennessee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115009734942876793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279303","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=279303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}