{"id":817914,"date":"2026-03-17T22:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/817914\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:16:22","slug":"cardinals-elijah-wilkinson-feuds-with-falcons-fan-after-atlanta-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/817914\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Elijah Wilkinson feuds with Falcons fan after Atlanta exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Falcons offensive tackle Elijah Wilkinson publicly blasted the team after signing a free agent deal with the Arizona Cardinals last week. <\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson \u2014 who spent three of the past four seasons in Atlanta, with a stop in Arizona in 2023 \u2014 didn\u2019t mince words while arguing with Falcons fans in since-deleted comments on social media. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood luck with that clown show over there,\u201d Wilkinson responded to someone that wrote, \u201cThank god you\u2019re gone,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MilesGarrettTV\/status\/2032513040202002934\" rel=\"nofollow\"> according to screen-grabs online<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38809239\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elijah-Wilkinson.jpg\" alt=\"Elijah Wilkinson #71 of the Atlanta Falcons runs off the field for halftime during a game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on November 30, 2025 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.  \" class=\"wp-image-38809239\"  \/>Elijah Wilkinson #71 of the Atlanta Falcons runs off the field for halftime during a game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on November 30, 2025 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.   Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLol, y\u2019all in hell [right now]\u201d Wilkinson said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MilesGarrettTV\/status\/2032589722812318023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">in another comment<\/a>. \u201cHave fun being ass next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson apparently took aim at some of his former Falcons teammates in a back-and-forth in his DMs, as seen in other screen-grabs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHahaha yeah alright, and all the passes\u00a0[Darnell] Mooney\u00a0dropped and\u00a0[Kyle] Pitts\u00a0f\u2013k off my line,\u201d Wilkinson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MilesGarrettTV\/status\/2032602868235051394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cHave fun rooting to lose the NFC South. 28-3. 28-3\u2026 Haahahahahhahha laughing stock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38809241\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elijah-Wilkinson-2.jpg\" alt=\"Elijah Wilkinson #71 of the Atlanta Falcons drops back to block during an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium on December 11, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. \" class=\"wp-image-38809241\"  \/>Elijah Wilkinson #71 of the Atlanta Falcons drops back to block during an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium on December 11, 2025 in Tampa, Florida.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson also<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/carrielynnxox\/status\/2032550624772960711?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\"> thanked another fan<\/a> for \u201csupporting me when half these people commenting wouldn\u2019t\u201d \u2014 adding that he \u201cBailed the Falcons out when they had nowhere to turn. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood luck moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson is reportedly returning to Arizona on a two-year deal. <\/p>\n<p>Last season, Wilkinson had 17 starts at right tackle after Kaleb McGary sustained a knee injury in the preseason. He appeared in just two games for the Falcons, primarily on special teams in the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson spent four seasons with the Broncos after he went undrafted out of UMass in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Falcons offensive tackle Elijah Wilkinson publicly blasted the team after signing a free agent deal with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,254,1327,7,6,89225,2592,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-817914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-free-agency-2026","16":"tag-nfl-free-agency","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116246835264393045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817914","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=817914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}