The Falcons' Quarterback Room Is Officially a Medical Emergency
Marc Raimondi shared the official Tuesday injury report, highlighting the sheer volume of Atlanta's roster issues.
The just dropped their Tuesday injury report, and it reads less like a football roster and more like the waiting room at an urgent care clinic.
When your starting quarterback, your backup quarterback, and your third-string quarterback all appear on the same injury report, you have officially crossed from bad luck into a cursed franchise timeline.
According to the report shared by beat writer Marc Raimondi, is doubtful with an oblique injury, and is already ruled out with a knee issue. That leaves Cooper Rush, who is nursing a back injury of his own, as the last man standing in a quarterback room that is currently held together by athletic tape and blind hope.
This is the exact opposite of what you want to see after getting publicly dismantled 34-3 by the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. is staring down a short week before heading out to play the on Friday, and they are doing it with a severely compromised roster.
Anyone looking at the betting lines for this Packers matchup needs to factor in that is missing its top two signal-callers. Add in the fact that starting cornerback Billy Bowman Jr. is out with an Achilles injury and star guard Chris Lindstrom is questionable with a concussion, and you cannot realistically handicap a game when one team is actively disintegrating.
The Falcons have a few days to figure out who is actually healthy enough to put on a helmet. If Rush's back flares up before kickoff in , might have to start pulling volunteers from the stands just to field an offense.