{"id":650335,"date":"2026-01-03T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/650335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:34:17","slug":"falcons-starting-lineups-vs-saints-with-pff-player-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/650335\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons starting lineups vs. Saints with PFF player grades"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Falcons and Saints will face off in Sunday’s season finale.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta Falcons<\/a> have been one of the hottest teams in the NFL over the last month and will look to close out the 2025 NFL season with a victory over the New Orleans Saints<\/a> on Sunday. Believe it or not, the Saints are even hotter than the Falcons entering Week 18.<\/p>\n

New Orleans brings a four-game winning streak to Atlanta for Sunday’s season finale. The Saints will look to rookie quarterback Tyler Shough to even the season series against the Falcons at 1-1. Both teams could be without some key weapons, though.<\/p>\n

The Saints have ruled out wide receiver Chris Olave, running back Alvin Kamara and defensive tackle Bryan Bresee for Sunday’s game. The Falcons have listed wide receiver Drake London<\/a>, Darnell Mooney and tight end Kyle Pitts as questionable, however, head coach Raheem Morris said he expects all three players to play.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, here’s a look at Atlanta’s starting lineups for Week 18, including Pro Football Focus<\/a> season grades for each player.<\/p>\n

Falcons starting offense: Week 18QB Kirk Cousins: 77.3RB Bijan Robinson: 87.6WR Drake London: 88.4WR Darnell Mooney: 52.9WR David Sills V: 53.4TE Kyle Pitts: 73.0LT Jake Matthews: 70.2LG Matthew Bergeron: 71.6C Ryan Neuzil: 79.6RG Chris Lindstrom: 88.5RT Elijah Wilkinson: 62.1Falcons starting defense: Week 18EDGE Leonard Floyd: 60.4DL Ruke Orhorhoro: 38.3DL David Onyemata: 75.9EDGE Jalon Walker: 71.7LB Divine Deablo: 76.6LB Kaden Elliss: 67.1CB A.J. Terrell: 57.5CB Cobee Bryant: 39.5NB Dee Alford: 45.8S Jessie Bates III: 66.9S Xavier Watts: 70.0Falcons Special Teams: Week 18K Zane Gonzalez: 91.9P Bradley Pinion: 75.2LS Liam McCullough: 67.5KR\/PR Deven Thompkins: 59.7<\/p>\n

Tune in for Sunday’s season finale at 1 p.m. ET at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons and Saints will face off in Sunday’s season finale. The Atlanta Falcons have been one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[11860,6901,2825,247,265,223,254,7056,13544,10498,4127,2428,11426,5199,11427,27162,6637,14209,1596,11406,6000,10329,6709,6194,11413,22250,11859,6710,18875,10134,35844,995,4130,715,11423,8421,224,7,8673,20842,2403,5461,309,7055,2664,18842,11415,6902,1092,6153,1637,11422,22672,10732,3310,11408,22671,11884,16267,248,267,246,19389,206,896,55,2572,2571,88,6,35196,6833,18955,13547,676,245,264,537,27789,7856,530,101,13546,6708,4791,11428,397,818,22246,817,829,9,266,819,18876,776,30010],"class_list":["post-650335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-saints","tag-alford","tag-alvin","tag-alvin-kamara","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-bates","tag-bergeron","tag-bijan","tag-bijan-robinson","tag-bradley","tag-bradley-pinion","tag-brandon","tag-brandon-dorlus","tag-bresee","tag-bryan","tag-bryan-bresee","tag-chris","tag-chris-lindstrom","tag-chris-olave","tag-darnell","tag-darnell-mooney","tag-david","tag-david-onyemata","tag-david-sills","tag-dee","tag-dee-alford","tag-deven","tag-deven-thompkins","tag-dorlus","tag-drake","tag-drake-london","tag-elijah","tag-elijah-wilkinson","tag-elliss","tag-falcons","tag-football","tag-ga","tag-hub","tag-iii","tag-jake","tag-jake-matthews","tag-jessie","tag-jessie-bates-iii","tag-kaden","tag-kaden-elliss","tag-kamara","tag-kyle","tag-kyle-pitts","tag-liam","tag-liam-mccullough","tag-lindstrom","tag-london","tag-matthew","tag-matthew-bergeron","tag-matthews","tag-mccullough","tag-mooney","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-neuzil","tag-new","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanssaints","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-olave","tag-onyemata","tag-orhorhoro","tag-orleans","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-pinion","tag-pitts","tag-positive","tag-robinson","tag-ruke","tag-ruke-orhorhoro","tag-ryan","tag-ryan-neuzil","tag-saints","tag-scores","tag-sills","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-thompkins","tag-u0026","tag-wilkinson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650335","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=650335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}