Ryan Neuzil had a fine 2025 season, but it was fair to wonder if a new regime might make a change at center. Happily for Neuzil, who has put in the work to go from undrafted free agent guard to starting center, it appears his job is pretty safe for 2026.<\/p>\n
How do I know that? The Falcons just went out and signed Corey Levin, a reserve interior offensive lineman who has primarily played center in his career and can fill in at guard in a pinch. Levin worked with new offensive line coach Bill Callahan last year in Tennessee, which is a helpful connection, but critically he\u2019s also a 32-year-old with only seven career starts. That would seem to bode well for Neuzil.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to suggest that Levin is a slouch. Besides his familiarity with Callahan, Levin has been a capable special teamer his entire career and has been quite good in pass protection, with just three sacks allowed over nearly 800 career snaps. His run blocking has received more mixed grades from Pro Football Focus, but has generally been at least decent. The upshot is that Callahan likes him, Levin has played pretty well when he\u2019s called upon, and he has experience at center and guard if the Falcons need him to fill-in. It\u2019s a quality depth signing, and Levin should directly replace Jovaughn Gwyn on the roster.<\/p>\n
Give Levin a warm welcome, and we\u2019ll see if the Falcons pick up any other free agents to bolster their offensive line depth. It seems increasingly unlikely they\u2019re going to touch the starting five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Neuzil had a fine 2025 season, but it was fair to wonder if a new regime might…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,52003,2591,2595,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":["post-807872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlanta-falcons-free-agency","tag-atlanta-falcons-news","tag-atlanta-falcons-roster","tag-atlantafalcons","tag-falcons","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116215163677195069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807872","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=807872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}