{"id":404335,"date":"2025-09-28T19:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/404335\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:10:25","slug":"falcons-cb-natrone-brooks-ruled-out-after-terrifying-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/404335\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons CB Natrone Brooks ruled OUT after terrifying hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Falcons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> have ruled out cornerback Natrone Brooks for the remainder of Sunday&#8217;s game against the Washington Commanders after suffering a heavy hit to the head during a kick return in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks attempted to stand after the injury, which some have called &#8220;Tua Tagovailoa levels of scary,&#8221; but was initially unable to. Fortunately, the former undrafted free agent was able to walk off the field on his own power with trainers to the locker room a scary moment in which players gathered around him.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With Brooks ruled out, wide receiver Ray-Ray McCloud has taken over return duties for Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>It marked the second injury of the day for the Falcons after tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/falcons-tight-end-questionable-return-180545003.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Feleipe Franks;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\">Feleipe Franks<\/a> was deemed questionable with an arm injury in the first half. The Falcons hold a 17-7 lead over the Commanders at halftime of Week 4.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Falcons Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefalconswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/falcons\/2025\/09\/28\/falcons-natrone-brooks-commanders-injury\/86407675007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Falcons CB Natrone Brooks ruled out vs. Commanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Falcons CB Natrone Brooks ruled out vs. Commanders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons have ruled out cornerback Natrone Brooks for the remainder of Sunday&#8217;s game against the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,9703,7,27651,6,2661,3452,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-404335","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-feleipe-franks","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-natrone-brooks","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-the-falcons","17":"tag-tua-tagovailoa","18":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115283508406114810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404335","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=404335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}