{"id":734370,"date":"2026-02-06T22:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734370\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:26:34","slug":"michael-penix-jr-opens-up-on-recovery-timeline-kevin-stefanski-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734370\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Penix Jr. opens up on recovery timeline, Kevin Stefanski hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 For one of the first times since he suffered a season-ending knee injury, Michael Penix Jr. has gone on record about his experience, where he is in his recovery as well as his thoughts on the hiring of Kevin Stefanski.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting down with Kay Adams on Radio Row at the Super Bowl media circuit, Penix said he is in a good spot in terms of his rehab.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am doing real good right now. I just met with my doctor (Thursday),&#8221; Penix said. &#8220;&#8230; We are starting to get things going. I am doing a lot of strengthening and stuff right now. I know I will be back and ready whenever the time comes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Penix underwent ACL surgery at the beginning of November. This is Penix&#8217;s third ACL surgery, the other two on the other knee. In all actuality, Penix explained, that&#8217;s been a leg up on his recovery process (no pun intended).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew what to expect,&#8221; Penix told Adams. &#8220;This is my third time going through it now, so I kind of knew what to expect. I knew how to attack the rehab process so that I can be better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Adams pressed Penix on his timeline to return, he agreed that getting the all-clear for Week 1 was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; the goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 For one of the first times since he suffered a season-ending knee injury, Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,8591,1879,88,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-734370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-falcons","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kevin-stefanski","14":"tag-michael-penix-jr","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116026040992854510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734370","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=734370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}