{"id":628317,"date":"2025-12-25T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/628317\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:06:13","slug":"falcons-get-encouraging-update-on-michael-penix-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/628317\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Get Encouraging Update on Michael Penix Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

FLOWERY BRANCH \u2013 Week 17 marks six weeks since Michael Penix Jr. injured his knee against the Carolina Panthers, and Atlanta<\/a> Falcons<\/a> head coach Raheem Morris was able to provide an update on his quarterback\u2019s status.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBack with us. Rehabbing. In the building. Great spirits. Starting his offseason planning,\u201d Morris said. \u201cAll of us, really, for him right now, at the end of the season, you do a 360 on each player, and he’s been able to start his 360.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The \u2018360\u2019 refers to the end-of-year meetings that every player is set to undergo, and set the offseason plan. For most players, that would include everything from nutrition to performance. For Penix, it is more about his medical-related processes and rehab.<\/p>\n

After that is a place where the team feels comfortable, they can move on to other items that pertain to his on-field play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHis whole process has started as far as what he’s going to do is kind of laid out for next season, this offseason, moving into it,\u201d Morris continued. \u201cIt’s really cool. Being able to get him back around the building has been great. Seeing him laying on the table with his guys, all those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penix had a successful surgery for the torn ACL in his left knee about a month ago, after Week 12 and during the week of November 24th. This is the third season-ending knee surgery for the quarterback, who will be 26 by the time next season kicks off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He will likely be out for at least nine months, putting him on track to return at some point in July or August of 2026, and likely cutting into the Falcons\u2019 training camp. If Penix were unable to go in Week 1, Morris said earlier this season that \u201call options are on the table<\/a>\u201d when it comes to their plan at the quarterback position next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Morris was unable to provide more information on the expected timeline for Penix, but that they have internal expectations for him over the next few months and that he is \u201con schedule.\u201d The Falcons\u2019 head coach was able to confirm that his quarterback is in good spirits despite the season-ending injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been awesome,\u201d he explained. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to go through the realization of going through the issues of the surgery and actually missing the rest of the season. That’s always tough. But actually getting a chance to get out there and get the surgery done and be able to come back, he’s been about as good of spirits as you could be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe’s popped up to the office and been able to sit down a little bit and go through his daily stuff that he does here, as far as his rehab and recovery and things of that nature. But he’s been in great spirits from what we know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penix ended his second NFL season having completed 60.1% of his passes for 1,982 yards and nine touchdowns to three interceptions over nine games. The former No. 8 overall pick was just 3-6 as the team\u2019s starter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, as uncertainty swirls at Flowery Branch, Penix will look to attack his second offseason program in Atlanta and return stronger for his third year in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH \u2013 Week 17 marks six weeks since Michael Penix Jr. injured his knee against the Carolina…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-628317","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-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115782247025512777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628317","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=628317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}