{"id":695093,"date":"2026-01-22T01:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/695093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:02:21","slug":"falcons-joshua-simon-signs-future-deal-with-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/695093\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons&#8217; Joshua Simon: Signs future deal with Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768943657_9_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/ATL\/atlanta-falcons\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/405.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/ATL\/atlanta-falcons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Falcons<\/a> signed <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/3123950\/simon\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simon<\/a> to a reserve\/future contract Wednesday, Tori McElhaney of the team&#8217;s official site reports.<\/p>\n<p>Simon stuck with the Falcons&#8217; practice squad throughout the 2025 season after ultimately failing to make the 53-man roster. The tight end was not elevated to the active roster at all this season. The future contract will allow Simon to compete for a spot on the 2026 roster once the preseason commences.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons signed Simon to a reserve\/future contract Wednesday, Tori McElhaney of the team&#8217;s official site reports. Simon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,1999,7,9144,6],"class_list":["post-695093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlantafalcons","tag-falcons","tag-fantasy-football","tag-football","tag-joshua-simon","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115936058268873589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695093","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=695093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}