{"id":428714,"date":"2023-03-07T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428714"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:10:08","slug":"linebacker-carter-returning-to-falcons-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/linebacker-carter-returning-to-falcons-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Linebacker Carter returning to Falcons on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons are signing pass rusher Lorenzo Carter to a two-year contract, per sources informed of the situation, according to NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: LB Lorenzo Carter has agreed to terms with the Atlanta <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Falcons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Falcons<\/a> on a two-year deal, source confirms the NFNL report. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gaiVD0XYde\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gaiVD0XYde<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLFootball (@_MLFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_MLFootball\/status\/1633114571719180288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old former New York Giants third-round pick inked a one-year deal in ATL last offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Carter had a solid campaign, earning four sacks, an interception for a touchdown and a career-high 58 tackles. He played all 17 games after injury concerns during his time in New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\" data-min-tv-running=\"true\">\n<p>Atlanta have needed edge-rush help for years and smartly didn&#8217;t let a stellar, still-growing player out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons should still look to upgrade the position, but retaining Carter is a positive first step in the offseason plan to solve the defensive issues that have lurked for years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons are signing pass rusher Lorenzo Carter to a two-year contract, per sources informed of the situation, according to NFL Network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428715,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17488,16794],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Analysts say that retaining Carter is a positive first step in the Falcons' offseason plan to solve the defensive issues that have lurked for years","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428714"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428714"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}