{"id":868635,"date":"2026-04-17T20:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:24:39","slug":"falcons-trade-dt-ruke-orhorhoro-to-jaguars-for-dt-maason-smith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868635\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons trade DT Ruke Orhorhoro to Jaguars for DT Maason Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Field Level Media;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldlevelmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Field Level Media\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"312\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bc126ea0-acd9-11ef-adff-76a94cf3e57a.png\"\/><\/a>Fri, April 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1099\" height=\"733\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0c68f3113c78385583e1c8900d618a0e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dec 21, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett (7) is pressured by. Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Ruke Orhorhoro (98) during the first half at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p> (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Falcons acquired Maason Smith from the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for Ruke Orhorhoro on Friday in a trade involving defensive tackles that were selected in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Orhorhoro, 24, recorded 25 tackles and 3.5 sacks in 17 games (eight starts) last season.<\/p>\n<p>He has 36 tackles and 3.5 sacks in 25 career games (eight starts) since being chosen with the 35th overall pick in 2024 out of Clemson.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 23, had 15 tackles in 13 games (two starts) last season.<\/p>\n<p>He had 32 tackles and three sacks in 24 career games (seven starts) since being selected with the 48th overall pick in 2024 out of LSU.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, April 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM UTC Dec 21, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,62272,1487,224,7,125,8253,6,6708],"class_list":{"0":"post-868635","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-career-games","12":"tag-defensive-tackles","13":"tag-falcons","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","16":"tag-maason-smith","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-ruke-orhorhoro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116421924061522703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868635","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=868635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}