{"id":32127,"date":"2025-05-07T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/32127\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:27:10","slug":"falcons-rookie-jersey-numbers-revealed-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/32127\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons rookie jersey numbers revealed for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Welcome to the NFL, rookies.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta Falcons revealed 2025 jersey numbers for their first-year players on Wednesday. That includes their five draft picks and 11 undrafted free agents.<\/p>\n

Three players lucked out and get to wear the same jersey number they did in college.<\/p>\n

Below is a full list, broken down by each category.<\/p>\n

\n JERSEY NUMBERS FOR 2025 DRAFT PICKS<\/p>\n

No. 11 \u2014 DE Jalon Walker<\/p>\n

Round 1, Pick 15 | Read more<\/a>
\nWalker also wore No. 11 at Georgia.<\/p>\n

No. 27 \u2014 DE James Pearce Jr.<\/p>\n

Round 1, Pick 26 | Read more<\/a>
\nPearce also wore No. 27 at Tennessee.<\/p>\n

No. 31 \u2014 DB Xavier Watts<\/p>\n

Round 3, Pick 96 | Read more<\/a>
\nWatts wore Nos. 0, 26 and 82 at Notre Dame.
\nNo. 0 belongs to LB Divine Deablo. No. 26 belongs to RB Carlos Washington Jr. No. 82 belongs to WR Casey Washington.<\/p>\n

No. 33 \u2014 DB Billy Bowman Jr.<\/p>\n

Round 4, Pick 118 | Read more<\/a>
\nBowman wore Nos. 2 and 5 at Oklahoma.
\nNo one wears No. 2, and it has not been worn since QB Matt Ryan last donned it in 2021. WR Drake London has No. 5.<\/p>\n

No. 69 \u2014 OL Jack Nelson<\/p>\n

Round 7, Pick 218 | Read more<\/a>
\nNelson wore No. 79 at Wisconsin.
\nThat number belongs to DL Junior Aho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Welcome to the NFL, rookies. The Atlanta Falcons revealed 2025 jersey numbers for their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[348,7,88,6,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-32127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2025-offseason","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-terrin-waack"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114468909486967577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127","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=32127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}