{"id":644506,"date":"2026-01-01T02:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/644506\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:33:44","slug":"falcons-dorlus-avoids-knee-injury-will-miss-season-finale-because-of-injured-hamstring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/644506\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons&#8217; Dorlus avoids knee injury, will miss season finale because of injured hamstring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/atlanta-falcons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Falcons<\/a> defensive tackle Brandon Dorlus avoided a serious injury after leaving Monday\u2019s 27-24 win over the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p>The second-year defensive tackle left in the third quarter with what was thought to be a knee injury. Coach Raheem Morris expressed concern after the game, saying that \u201cit didn\u2019t look great\u201d and that he \u201cfelt for the young man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coach said on Wednesday it was a hamstring injury and not a torn ligament in the knee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe dodged a big-time bullet,\u201d Morris said. \u201cWe feel pretty good about the injury. He\u2019s going to miss a couple weeks, obviously he\u2019ll miss this game, but we do know we feel really good about what happened as opposed to what everybody thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris was optimistic about the defensive tackle\u2019s prognosis. He said he\u2019s uncertain if surgery will be required. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I know, nothing\u2019s torn. I shouldn\u2019t say that. All I know is it\u2019s not a ligament,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s out this game. He\u2019s got an injury that\u2019s going to require a couple weeks, but it looks good, really good.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Falcons wrap up the season against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Brandon Dorlus avoided a serious injury after leaving Monday\u2019s 27-24 win over the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2074],"tags":[13781,223,254,2554,11427,224,7,4645,629,82906,6,498,2663,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-644506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-athlete-injuries","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-brandon-dorlus","13":"tag-falcons","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-ga-state-wire","16":"tag-georgia","17":"tag-local-news-for-apple","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-football","20":"tag-raheem-morris","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115817507062537501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644506","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=644506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}