{"id":230010,"date":"2026-02-23T19:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/falcons-buy-time-for-kyle-pitts-extension-with-franchise-tag\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:08:55","slug":"falcons-buy-time-for-kyle-pitts-extension-with-franchise-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/falcons-buy-time-for-kyle-pitts-extension-with-franchise-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons buy time for Kyle Pitts extension with franchise tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta_falcons\/48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> have given themselves another year to work on an extension for what they hope is the tight end of their future.<\/p>\n<p>According to NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport, Atlanta will be placing its franchise tag on star tight end Kyle Pitts. Pitts, a fifth-year player, had a breakout season in 2025 that earned him second-team All-Pro honors.<\/p>\n<p>He will earn more than $15 million on the franchise tag. According to Rapoport, though, an extension between both sides is the ultimate goal. July is the deadline for that to be reached.<\/p>\n<h2>Kyle Pitts has trended upward each season<\/h2>\n<p>The breakout year many have expected finally came in 2025 for Pitts, as he posted career highs in receptions (88), first downs (51) and touchdowns (five).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Pitts&#8217; yearly touchdown numbers have correlated with his years in the NFL (1 TD in Year 1, 2 TDs in Year 2, etc.). If that trend continues, a six-touchdown season is on the horizon for the former first-round pick.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/falcons_buy_time_for_kyle_pitts_extension_with_franchise_tag\/s1_13132_43507877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons have given themselves another year to work on an extension for what they hope is the tight end of their future. According to NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport, Atlanta will be placing its franchise tag on star tight end Kyle Pitts. Pitts, a fifth-year player, had a breakout season in 2025 that earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}