{"id":1931651,"date":"2026-09-07T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931651"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:33:58","slug":"falcons-name-tua-tagovailoa-as-week-1-starter-michael-penix-jr-will-be-inactive-vs-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931651","title":{"rendered":"Falcons name Tua Tagovailoa as Week 1 starter, Michael Penix Jr. will be inactive vs. Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Tua Tagovailoa has been named the Atlanta Falcons&#8217; starting quarterback for Week 1 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/067f7-falcons-name-tua-tagovailoa-as-week-1-starter-michael-penix-jr-will-be-inactive-vs-steelers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Tua Tagovailoa has been named the Atlanta Falcons&#8217; starting quarterback for Week 1 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team announced Monday&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1931652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1931651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931653,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931651\/revisions\/1931653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}