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Feb. 2, 2026, 4:33 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

After interviewing six different candidates for their general manager vacancy, the Atlanta Falcons<\/a> officially hired Ian Cunningham last week. The former Chicago Bears<\/a> assistant general manager replaces Terry Fontenot, who spent the last five seasons leading Atlanta’s front office.<\/p>\n

Cunningham is set to be formally introduced on Tuesday in a joint press conference with Falcons president of football Matt Ryan. Atlanta’s new general manager has already arrived at team headquarters and was given a tour of the facilities by Ryan himself.<\/p>\n

The Falcons social media account shared a video of Ryan and Cunningham making the rounds, which you can watch below. Plus, make sure to tune in Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET for Cunningham’s full introductory press conference.<\/p>\n

WATCH: Matt Ryan gives GM Ian Cunningham tour of facilities\"\"<\/a>Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 2, 2026, 4:33 p.m. ET After interviewing six different candidates for their general manager vacancy, the Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[95878,223,254,2554,224,7,8673,6,96607,96608,95882,98521,96609,96089,96503,95895,95897,95899,95906,96071,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-725450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-ga","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnflfalcons","17":"tag-sstsnfalcons","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagatlanta","20":"tag-tagatlanta-falcons","21":"tag-tagchicago-bears","22":"tag-tagmatt-ryan","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagoverall-positive","27":"tag-tagsmg-timely","28":"tag-tagsports-news","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116004933198421706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725450","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=725450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}