As Kirk Cousins continues to recover from a torn Achilles, Michael Penix Jr. gets to make a first impression, beginning Friday in Miami.
The compartmentalization of the excitement surrounding Falcons quarterbacks is simple enough: Kirk Cousins is the quarterback of the present, and rookie Michael Penix Jr. is, for an as-yet-undetermined time, the quarterback of the future. Don't let the next three weeks confuse that, as Cousins sits out the preseason schedule while he continues to recover from a torn Achilles tendon suffered last season while he was in Minnesota.
The Falcons have made it clear they see a place for Penix in their future, but ideally, that's not a 2024 transition. 'We hope and pray has got three to four great years in front of him. Maybe beyond that, who knows?' Blank said. 'But we also know that … there will be a point that we'll need a transition. We want to make sure we do that smoothly. 'We're doing our advance planning and doing our advance thinking. And so, that's what fans expect of us to do.
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