The Atlanta Falcons have emphasized how injuries are a part of the game in not wanting to make excuses for an 0-4 start. The reality is they’ve been bitten rather hard by the injury bug.
Losing ball-hawking free safety Damontae Kazee to a season-ending Achilles tear was tough enough to cope with, especially since it marked the third consecutive year a starting safety went down with such an injury following Ricardo Allen (2018) and Keanu Neal (2019).
Now the Falcons are faced with uncertainly surrounding star wide receiver Julio Jones and his lingering left hamstring injury, which kept him off the practice field Wednesday.