{"id":661682,"date":"2026-01-07T17:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661682\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:43:13","slug":"zane-gonzalez-named-nfc-special-teams-player-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661682\/","title":{"rendered":"Zane Gonzalez named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Atlanta Falcons kicker Zane Gonzalez has been named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week, the NFL announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This honor comes after the Falcons&#8217; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/news\/game-breakdown-falcons-saints-score-takeaways-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Week 18 win against the New Orleans Saints<\/a> and marks Gonzalez&#8217;s second time receiving the recognition. He previously <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/news\/zane-gonzalez-nfc-special-teams-player-of-the-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">received it after the Falcons\u2019 Week 12 win<\/a>, which, oddly enough, was also against the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, Gonzalez made four field goals and an extra point to provide 13 of the Falcons&#8217; 19 points. His kicks were good from 51 and 40 yards and twice from 38 yards.<\/p>\n<p>It was the sixth time in his career that he made four field goals in a single game. The most he has ever attempted was five with the Arizona Cardinals in 2019; however, he missed one.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez also handled kickoff duties for the Falcons last Sunday. He averaged 58 yards per boot and had two of his six kicks result in touchbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Atlanta Falcons kicker Zane Gonzalez has been named NFC Special Teams Player of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,93338,2572,2571,88,95692,6,397,1024,6433],"class_list":{"0":"post-661682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints-at-atlanta-falcons-2025-reg-18","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfc-special-teams-player-of-the-week","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-saints","18":"tag-terrin-waack","19":"tag-zane-gonzalez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115855058792225299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661682","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=661682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}