{"id":257870,"date":"2026-08-15T01:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/falcons-qb-situation-looks-bleak-after-tua-tagovailoas-performance-vs-broncos\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:24:52","slug":"falcons-qb-situation-looks-bleak-after-tua-tagovailoas-performance-vs-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/falcons-qb-situation-looks-bleak-after-tua-tagovailoas-performance-vs-broncos\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons\u2019 QB situation looks bleak after Tua Tagovailoa\u2019s performance vs. Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta_falcons\/48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Atlanta Falcons<\/span><\/a> brought in quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/tua_tagovailoa\/548315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tua Tagovailoa<\/a> this offseason as an insurance plan for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/michael_penix_jr\/632000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Michael Penix Jr.<\/span><\/a>, who the team planned on being the franchise signal-caller. While that may end up being the case still, the 2024 first-round pick has a concerning injury history that reared its ugly head once again last season.<\/p>\n<p>Penix Jr. is still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/falcons_michael_penix_jr_shares_injury_update\/s1_13132_44170167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>recovering<\/span><\/a> from a partially torn ACL he suffered in November of last year and hasn\u2019t been able to take any contact during practices.<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa got the start in Atlanta\u2019s first preseason game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/denver_broncos\/35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Broncos<\/a> since the young quarterback is still recovering, but his performance was concerning, to say the least.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\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_qb_situation_looks_bleak_after_tua_tagovailoas_performance_vs_broncos\/s1_13132_44176718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons brought in quarterback Tua Tagovailoa this offseason as an insurance plan for Michael Penix Jr., who the team planned on being the franchise signal-caller. While that may end up being the case still, the 2024 first-round pick has a concerning injury history that reared its ugly head once again last season. Penix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257871,"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-257870","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\/257870","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=257870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}