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Falcons placed TE Jaeden Graham on injured reserve with a knee injury, ending his season.
Graham was injured in Wednesday's practice. It's a blow to the Falcons' depth at the position after Graham has played in all 32 games, spanning 300-plus snaps, over the last two seasons. Atlanta signed WR/KR Trevor Davis to take Graham's roster spot.
Falcons re-signed TE Jaeden Graham.
Graham, an exclusive rights free agent, has totaled 12 receptions for 174 yards and one score across 32 games with the Falcons. He'll continue to be used sparingly behind Hayden Hurst and Luke Stocker this upcoming season.
Graham caught nine of 10 targets for 149 receiving yards and one touchdown during his second pro season out of Yale.
The former All-Ivy League performer signed on with the Falcons as an undrafted free agent in June of 2018, but he ultimately did not make his regular-season debut until Week 1 of 2019. Graham's brightest stretch came between Weeks 12 and 13 while Austin Hooper was inactive, as he collected five catches for 94 yards and a TD. Across his other 14 appearances, Graham managed just four additional catches for 55 yards. Under contract for one more season at a cap hit of $585,000, the 24-year-old tight end is likely to serve as a backup option again in 2020, though if Hooper signs elsewhere during free agency he may see a substantial uptick in offensive involvement.
Graham (thigh) practiced fully Friday and doesn't have a designation for Sunday's game against the Panthers, D. Orlando Ledbetter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Graham was the primary beneficiary of Austin Hooper's (knee) three-game absence, hauling in seven of eight targets for 117 yards and one TD during that span. With Hooper back in the fold this weekend, Graham likely will experience a downtick in his recent workload, which amounted to between 52 and 66 percent of the offensive snaps. If Hooper is at all limited, though, Graham may not fall all the way back to his handful of plays per game from the first nine contests of the campaign.
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