{"id":529504,"date":"2025-10-26T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/529504\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:50:20","slug":"drake-london-injury-falcons-top-wr-inactive-vs-dolphins-due-to-hip-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/529504\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake London injury: Falcons&#8217; top WR inactive vs. Dolphins due to hip issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"drake-london-bills.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/drake-london-bills.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Imagn<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/ATL\/atlanta-falcons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> offense will be shorthanded when they take on the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/MIA\/miami-dolphins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> in Week 8 as star wide receiver <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/3127902\/drake-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake London<\/a> has been <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AtlantaFalcons\/status\/1982470115179516271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">listed as inactive<\/a>\u00a0for Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>London popped up on the injury report late in the week when he was downgraded to questionable with the hip injury on Saturday. He had logged a limited practice on Friday, but didn&#8217;t have a game-day designation on the team&#8217;s final injury report that day. London was expected to be a game-time decision ahead of Sunday&#8217;s contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons star wideout has hauled in 38 passes for 469 yards and two touchdowns in six games this season. London is coming off a week in which he caught four passes for 42 yards on 10 targets in a 20-10 loss against the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/SF\/san-francisco-49ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, London racked up career-highs in receptions (100), receiving yards (1,271), and touchdowns (nine).<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons offense was already slated to be shorthanded with quarterback <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2963496\/michael-penix-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Penix Jr.<\/a>, who was dealing with a foot\/ankle injury throughout the week. With Penix also being ruled as inactive, veteran <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/1272574\/kirk-cousins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirk Cousins<\/a> will step back into a starting role for the first time since being benched late in the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>With London out of the lineup, Cousins will have to lean on speedy receiver <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2240651\/darnell-mooney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darnell Mooney<\/a> and tight end <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2964514\/kyle-pitts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Pitts<\/a>, along with <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/3168163\/bijan-robinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bijan Robinson<\/a> out of the backfield, against Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn The Atlanta Falcons offense will be shorthanded when they take on the Miami Dolphins in Week 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[27738,171593,140150,748,109116,109115,171567,393,4884,171051,140151,257,33913,102130,22138,22140,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-529504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons-injury-news","10":"tag-bijan-robinson","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-darnell-mooney","13":"tag-drake-london","14":"tag-drake-london-injury","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-kirk-cousins","18":"tag-kyle-pitts","19":"tag-london","20":"tag-miami-dolphins","21":"tag-michael-penix-jr","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115441502566835501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}