{"id":356679,"date":"2025-09-10T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/356679\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:14:34","slug":"falcons-sign-new-kicker-after-younghoe-koo-misses-game-tying-field-goal-in-loss-to-buccaneers-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/356679\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons sign new kicker after Younghoe Koo misses game-tying field goal in loss to Buccaneers, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Falcons<\/a>\u00a0are exploring their options at kicker after Younghoe Koo<\/a> missed what would have been a game-tying kick in the final seconds of the 23-20 Week 1 loss to the Buccaneers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After holding a workout with several kickers, the Falcons are signing John Parker Romo<\/a>\u00a0to their practice squad, who made 11 of his 12 field goal attempts last season as a member of the Vikings, according to NFL Media<\/a>. Romo, 28, spent training camp with the Patriots but was released during final roster cuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Romo reportedly was part of a workout that also included kickers Zane Gonzalez<\/a>, Michael Badgley and Ben Sauls<\/a>. Falcons coach Raheem Morris on Monday said that the Falcons would look at both internal and external options at kicker. In addition to Koo and Romo, the Falcons also have a third kicker in Lenny Krieg<\/a>, who is currently on the practice squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There’s no secrets around here how we go about our business,” Morris said. “There will always be a highly competitive atmosphere. \u2026 Obviously, we have a young man in the building that is more of a young, up-and-comer, developing prospect, but we’ll definitely look at outside and inside the building.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Morris did acknowledge that, at this point, Koo is still the team’s starting kicker as Atlanta prepares for Sunday’s upcoming game against the Vikings<\/a>. The 31-year-old former Pro Bowler is at the start of his eighth NFL<\/a> season and seventh with the Falcons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s tough, obviously,” Koo said on Monday<\/a>. “But, as always, I’ve just got to get back to work. Definitely frustrated. Had a great offseason, a great camp. Two weeks leading into Week 1, I felt great. I still do. There’s just a couple things I’ve got to adjust better on the go, like during the game. Learn from it and move on. There’s really all you can do.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

If history repeats itself, Koo should be able to rebound from his current adversity. As a rookie with the Chargers<\/a>, he was waived after just four games despite not missing a kick during his last two games with the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Koo then spent a year kicking in the Alliance of American Football before having a brief stint on the Patriots<\/a>‘ practice squad. He made the most of his opportunity after the Falcons signed him during the 2019 season. He made 88.5% of his field goal attempts that season and was tabbed as a Pro Bowler in 2020 after making a career-high 94.9% of his field goal tries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Koo continued to be a solid kicker for Atlanta for the next three seasons before he experienced a dip in performance last year when he made a career-low 73.5% of his kicks. He made two of his three field goal attempts and both of his PATs during Sunday’s loss to Tampa Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons\u00a0are exploring their options at kicker after Younghoe Koo missed what would have been a game-tying kick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,7884,11580,6,8337],"class_list":{"0":"post-356679","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-falcons","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-john-parker-romo","14":"tag-lenny-krieg","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-younghoe-koo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115179714381626274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356679","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=356679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}