{"id":165143,"date":"2024-08-15T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=165143"},"modified":"2024-08-15T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:59:12","slug":"justin-simmons-signs-contract-atlanta-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/08\/15\/justin-simmons-signs-contract-atlanta-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Time Pro Bowler Signs Contract With Atlanta Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-year veteran safety Justin Simmons signed a new contract with the Atlanta Falcons. Simmons, a two-time Pro Bowl selection and four-time Second-Team All-Pro, spent the entirety of his career with the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: 4x All-Pro safety Justin Simmons is signing with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Falcons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Falcons<\/a> 1-year, $8M, per multiple sources.<\/p>\n<p>After landing Matthew Judon in a trade, Atlanta adds another big time playmaker to its defense in Simmons. A monster 24 hours. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KqAkhJeZ0O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/KqAkhJeZ0O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1824173275381109025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Justin Simmons, Atlanta Falcons, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n<p>Safety Justin Simmons is coming off yet another strong season with the Denver Broncos. Despite getting up there in years, the 30-year-old thrived in his first season playing under head coach Sean Payton. Starting and appearing in 15 games, the former third-round pick finished the season with three interceptions, eight passes defended, two forced fumble, one sacks, 70 tackles, and two tackles-for-loss. Simmons made the second Pro Bowl of his career, but it wasn&#8217;t enough to stop Denver from releasing him in a cost-cutting move.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Simmons originally entered the league as a third-round pick in the 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024-nfl-draft-profiles\/\" target=\"_self\">NFL Draft<\/a>. Selected by the Denver Broncos, the Boston College product spent his rookie season as a promising rotational player. Appearing in 13 games while making three starts, the rookie finished his inaugural season with two interceptions, four passes defended, one sack, 30 tackles, and two tackles-for-loss.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons built upon that promising season to earn a full-time starting job in 2017. Starting and appearing in 13 games, the safety finished his second season with two interceptions, five passes defended, one sack, 69 tackles, and four tackles-for-loss.<\/p>\n<p>After another solid season, Justin Simmons began to establish himself as one of the best in the game during the final year of his rookie season. Earning Second-Team All-Pro honors, Simmons started all 16 games while recording four interceptions, 15 passes defended, 93 tackles, and two tackles-for-loss. He maintained that high level of play, earning either Pro Bowl or Second-Team All-Pro honors in five consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Since signing his rookie contract, Justin Simmons has appeared in 118 games while making 108 starts. During his time on the field, the former third-round pick has recorded 30 interceptions, 604 tackles, and 64 passes defended.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Gregory Fisher &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran safety Justin Simmons has signed a new contract. The former third-round pick spent the 2023 season with the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":165147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,15],"tags":[7305,5455,246],"class_list":["post-165143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-broncos","tag-denver-broncos-news","tag-justin-simmons","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}