{"id":495027,"date":"2025-08-04T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495027"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:11:24","slug":"falcons-ink-mcgary-to-a-2-year-30-million-dollar-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/falcons-ink-mcgary-to-a-2-year-30-million-dollar-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons ink McGary to a 2-year, 30 million dollar extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons secured the RT position for the next few years, inking Kaleb McGary to a 2-campaign, 30 million dollar extension.<\/p>\n<p>Kaleb is famous for his run-blocking prowess, but will now have to cover the blindside of left-handed QB Michael Penix Jr. The 30-year-old RT will begin his 7<sup>th<\/sup> campaign in the NFL. Kaleb was selected with the 31<sup>st<\/sup> selection by Atlanta in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>When McGary spoke with the media 2 weeks ago and was asked that he has only 1 year left on his current deal, the right tackle shared that he doesn\u2019t have a problem with that, and he is only thinking about being at his best for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Falcons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Falcons<\/a> and RT Kaleb McGary have agreed to a 2-year, $30M extension. <\/p>\n<p>The former 1st-rounder has started 92 games over six seasons and is now getting re-upped by Atlanta for the second time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rB6OLEupmB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rB6OLEupmB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1952420269303149028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He had bone spurs in his left ankle and got a scope done after the end of the past campaign. Kaleb didn\u2019t appear in OTAs and minicamp due to the problem, but now trains alongside his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Falcons have a lot of variations of the offensive line as they have Pro Bowl RT guard Chris Lindstrom and LT Jake Matthews, who has a deal for 3 more years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons secured the RT position for the next few years, inking Kaleb McGary to a 2-campaign, 30 million dollar extension. Kaleb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495028,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17488,26548],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[18585,26549],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Atlanta signed the right tackle for 2 more seasons.","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\/495027"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495030,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495027\/revisions\/495030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495027"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495027"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}