Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr. required season-ending surgery to repair a partially torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

Atlanta’s first-round pick in the 2024 draft, Penix received a second medical opinion before opting to head back to the operating table.

It will be his third ACL surgery. He tore his right ACL twice while in college in Indiana, and suffered two serious shoulder injuries.

“The one thing we say about Michael: He knows what it’s like to be battle-tested. He’s shown us that before,” Falcons head coach Raheem Morris said Wednesday afternoon. “Last injury he had was ’21, I believe it was a shoulder. The last knee was in ’20. He’s done nothing but come back stronger every single opportunity he’s been given.”

“The guy is going to come back stronger for us

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