{"id":46038,"date":"2025-05-13T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46038\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:58:12","slug":"james-pearce-jr-one-of-falcons-1st-round-draft-picks-signs-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46038\/","title":{"rendered":"James Pearce Jr., one of Falcons\u2019 1st-round draft picks, signs contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"1\">Falcons rookie James Pearce Jr., the No. 26 pick in this year\u2019s NFL draft, signed his first-round rookie contract, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"2\">The team\u2019s other first-round pick, ex-Georgia Bulldog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/atlanta-falcons\/falcons-jalon-walker-signs-rookie-contract-starts-minicamp\/ZOPB2GGAPVA4NIABQBPBCNI5G4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalon Walker, signed his rookie contract<\/a> Friday, the first day of the Falcons\u2019 three-day rookie minicamp at the Flowery Branch practice facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"5\">Safety Xavier Watts, defensive back Billy Bowman Jr. and offensive tackle Jack Nelson also signed their rookie contracts Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falcons rookie James Pearce Jr., the No. 26 pick in this year\u2019s NFL draft, signed his first-round rookie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[2566,223,254,2554,224,7,6,3243],"class_list":{"0":"post-46038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-ajc-freelancer","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rookie-minicamp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46038","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=46038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}