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Marc RaimondiJul 25, 2025, 09:51 PM ET
- Marc Raimondi's archetypal twelvemonth covering the Falcons was 2024, but it wasn't his archetypal twelvemonth astatine ESPN. He joined the institution successful 2019 and was a apical combat sports reporter. He besides covered nonrecreational wrestling and wrote the publication "Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Pro Wrestling's New World Order Changed America," which was published by Simon & Schuster successful 2025. Raimondi besides worked for the New York Post and Newsday, opening successful 2009, covering precocious schoolhouse and assemblage sports, positive the NFL, NFL, MLB and NHL.
The Atlanta Falcons volition beryllium without 1 of their apical wide receivers successful the abbreviated term.
Darnell Mooney has a enarthrosis wounded and volition beryllium retired for respective weeks, the squad announced Friday night.
In the Falcons' archetypal signifier of grooming campy Thursday, Mooney made a dive for a heavy Michael Penix Jr. walk down the close sideline during 11-on-11 enactment and stayed connected the crushed for a fewer seconds earlier getting up. It was a hard capable autumn Mooney walked disconnected the tract with a trainer afterward, with his helmet successful hand, and did not return.
Mooney has been the team's No. 2 wide receiver down Drake London since helium was signed by Atlanta successful the 2024 offseason from the Chicago Bears. Mooney, 27, had 106 catches for 992 yards and a career-high 5 touchdowns past year.
On Friday, the Falcons signed free-agent wide receiver DJ Chark, who had astir precocious played with the Los Angeles Chargers. Chark, a 2018 second-round pick, brings plentifulness of velocity and acquisition to Atlanta. He has 51 vocation starts and has played antecedently with 4 antithetic teams.
Chark, 28, is apt to articulation London and Ray-Ray McCloud III arsenic starters portion Mooney is out, though KhaDarel Hodge and Casey Washington could beryllium successful the premix for reps, arsenic well.
