{"id":861526,"date":"2026-04-08T20:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861526\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:41:44","slug":"falcons-sign-super-champion-as-kaleb-mcgary-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861526\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Sign Super Champion As Kaleb McGary Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">FLOWERY BRANCH \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/si.com\/nfl\/falcons\/onsi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> moved quickly after their offensive line depth was dealt a stunning blow on Wednesday afternoon. Kaleb McGary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/falcons\/onsi\/kaleb-mcgary-retirement-surprise-announcement-nfl-news-offseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced that he would be retiring<\/a>, but the Falcons signed former Kansas City Chiefs right tackle Jawaan Taylor soon after.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">According to ESPN\u2019s NFL insider Adam Schefter, Taylor comes to the Falcons on a one-year deal. That contract is reportedly worth $5 million with an additional $1 million in incentives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">Taylor, 28, was released by the Chiefs in March following three seasons with the Chiefs. He was a heavily penalized player, picking up 54 over his years with the franchise. The tackle has been a consistent starter for the Super Bowl LVIII winners, starting 17 games in 2023 before starting 16 in 2024 and 12 in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">Taylor will occupy the vacated blindside for a pair of left-handed quarterbacks, Tua Tagovailoa and Michael Penix Jr., who will be competing for the starting job this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6y\">Their longtime offensive tackle had locked down the right side of their offensive line for the last six years, but the former first-round pick has been working to return from a leg injury that cost him a seventh in 2025. McGary started 92 games for the Falcons during that time, and he quickly developed a reputation as a ferocious run blocker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"71\">McGary signed a two-year, $30 million extension last offseason before suffering the injury that cost him his season at the tail end of training camp. His sudden retirement frees up about $14 million in cap space for the 2026 and 2027 seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/falcons\/onsi\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free Atlanta Falcons newsletter<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FalconsOnSI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FalconsSI\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH \u2013 The Atlanta Falcons moved quickly after their offensive line depth was dealt a stunning blow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-861526","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-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116371031085044913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861526","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=861526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}