{"id":1934074,"date":"2026-09-18T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934074"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:12:14","slug":"cooper-rush-to-make-2nd-straight-start-at-quarterback-for-falcons-in-home-opener-against-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934074","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Rush to make 2nd straight start at quarterback for Falcons in home opener against Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Falcons coach Kevin Stefanski says Cooper Rush will make his second straight start at quarterback in Sunday\u2019s home opener against NFC South rival Carolina. Rush threw two interceptions in last week\u2019s 20-13 opening loss at Pittsburgh. Rookie Jack Strand will be Rush&#8217;s backup. Tua Tagovailo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/6e6f6-cooper-rush-to-make-2nd-straight-start-at-quarterback-for-falcons-in-home-opener-against-panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Falcons coach Kevin Stefanski says Cooper Rush will make his second straight start at quarterback in Sunday\u2019s home opener against NFC South rival Carolina. Rush&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1934075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116],"class_list":["post-1934074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934074","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=1934074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934076,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934074\/revisions\/1934076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}