{"id":466378,"date":"2025-10-22T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/466378\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:15:12","slug":"atlanta-falcons-release-wide-receiver-ray-ray-mccloud-iii-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/466378\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Falcons release wide receiver Ray-Ray McCloud III \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Atlanta Falcons released wide receiver Ray-Ray McCloud on Tuesday after the veteran opened the season as a starter but was inactive the last two games despite being healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">McCloud, 29, set a career high with 62 catches for 686 yards in 2024, his first season in Atlanta. After opening the season with Drake London and Darnell Mooney as the Falcons\u2019 top three receivers, McCloud had only six catches for 64 yards through four games and then was a healthy scratch against Buffalo and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Coach Raheem Morris gave no details on McCloud\u2019s fall from grace, saying only it was a coach\u2019s decision. On Friday, Morris announced McCloud would miss Sunday night\u2019s 20-10 loss at San Francisco. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">McCloud did not accompany the team to San Francisco but instead was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/falcons-49ers-score-mccaffrey-a7818efab7c440a84259a6a8a19d5550?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent home<\/a> for what the coach described as a personal matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWorking through some things right now that are private with my young man, and we\u2019ll figure those things out as we go,\u201d Morris said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">When asked Monday about an update on McCloud\u2019s status, Morris said he was \u201cgoing through that process right now\u201d and would \u201ctalk with him. But that\u2019s the distraction that I\u2019m dealing with, no one else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Falcons, who play at home on Sunday against Miami, also signed offensive lineman Raiqwon O\u2019Neal to the practice squad on Tuesday and placed tackle Ryan Hayes on the practice squad reserve\/injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">McLeod played with Buffalo, Carolina, Pittsburgh and San Francisco before joining the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">McCloud\u2019s release opens the path for Casey Washington, David Sills V and KhaDarel Hodge at wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Atlanta Falcons released wide receiver Ray-Ray McCloud on Tuesday after the veteran opened the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[77579,223,254,2554,224,7,3185,6,3846],"class_list":{"0":"post-466378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-_atlvsnyg_122224_dk-120","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-helmet-off","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nflraw24"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115417299567545650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466378","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=466378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}