{"id":257912,"date":"2026-08-15T04:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/falcons-james-pearce-jr-gets-signification-suspension-from-nfl\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:26:38","slug":"falcons-james-pearce-jr-gets-signification-suspension-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/falcons-james-pearce-jr-gets-signification-suspension-from-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons&#8217; James Pearce Jr. gets signification suspension from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta_falcons\/48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> edge-rusher James Pearce Jr. has received a significant suspension from the NFL stemming from his offseason arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL announced Friday that Pearce has received an eight-game suspension for violating the league\u2019s personal conduct policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspension stems from his offseason arrest following a domestic dispute with ex-girlfriend and WNBA player Rickea Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons had likely been bracing themselves for this news since February. Details of Pearce\u2019s arrest in Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/football\/james-pearce-jr-wnba-player-car-chase\/740366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were quite disturbing<\/a>, and he was accused of intentionally rear-ending Jackson\u2019s vehicle to prevent her from reaching a police station. He was later <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/football\/falcons-james-pearce-jr-hit-3-felonies-misdemeanor-stalking\/745416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor<\/a>, though one of the felony charges was later dropped. The remaining charges are still pending.<\/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_james_pearce_jr_gets_signification_suspension_from_nfl\/s1_127_44176018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Falcons edge-rusher James Pearce Jr. has received a significant suspension from the NFL stemming from his offseason arrest. The NFL announced Friday that Pearce has received an eight-game suspension for violating the league\u2019s personal conduct policy.\u00a0 The suspension stems from his offseason arrest following a domestic dispute with ex-girlfriend and WNBA player Rickea Jackson. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257913,"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-257912","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\/257912","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=257912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}