{"id":381813,"date":"2025-09-20T02:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/381813\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T02:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:54:17","slug":"falcons-cut-k-younghoe-koo-after-seven-years-with-team-sign-new-starter-parker-romo-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/381813\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons cut K Younghoe Koo after seven years with team; sign new starter Parker Romo to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the aftermath of Parker Romo<\/a>‘s perfect performance on Sunday night, it was all but a given that Younghoe Koo<\/a>‘s time in Atlanta has come to a close.<\/p>\n

That proved to be the case as the Falcons released Koo on Friday, five days after he was inactive and not in attendance for Atlanta’s 22-6 win<\/a> over the host Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n

In turn, Romo — who coach Raheem Morris said earlier Friday morning will start this weekend against<\/a> the Panthers — inked a two-year deal to join the team’s active roster, per NFL Network Insiders Tom Pelissero and Mike Garafolo. Atlanta announced signing Romo shortly after.<\/p>\n

Koo’s farewell concludes a somewhat stunning couple of weeks, but the rumblings for such a move began last year — the worst of Koo’s career.<\/p>\n

Koo emerged victorious from a preseason battle for the kicking job with International Pathway Program player Lenny Krieg<\/a>, but a missed game-tying 44-yard field goal attempt in a Week 1 23-20 loss<\/a> to the Buccaneers will stand as his final kick for the Falcons.<\/p>\n

In the first game of his seventh season with Atlanta, Koo was 2 of 3 on field goals, 2 of 2 on extra points. His longest attempt was the fateful 44-yarder.<\/p>\n

Atlanta signed Romo to its practice squad two days after Koo’s miss, signaling the team’s most recent possibility of moving on. The Falcons then elevated Romo on ahead of their Week 2 showdown against the Vikings in favor of Koo, who did not travel to Minnesota with the team. Romo, the Vikes’ kicker in four games last season, was perfect on five field goals and an extra point, effectively punching Koo’s ticket out of town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the aftermath of Parker Romo‘s perfect performance on Sunday night, it was all but a given that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[1227,223,254,2554,224,7,7884,11580,88,6,609,8896,8337],"class_list":{"0":"post-381813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-john-parker-romo","15":"tag-lenny-krieg","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-no-minute","19":"tag-training-camp","20":"tag-younghoe-koo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115234371619206843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381813","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=381813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}