{"id":46922,"date":"2018-08-07T00:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T04:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=46922"},"modified":"2021-03-09T22:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T03:42:43","slug":"atlanta-falcons-extend-safety-ricardo-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/08\/07\/atlanta-falcons-extend-safety-ricardo-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Falcons Extend Safety Ricardo Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons continue to re-sign some of their top players as they hand out a new contract to safety <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/A\/AlleRi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ricardo Allen<\/a><\/strong>. The deal looks to be a three-year $19.5 million extension. The team looks to be extending all key players to ensure they still stay relevant in the NFC for years to come.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Falcons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Falcons<\/a> have agreed to a 3-year extension worth $19.5mil for S Ricardo Allen, source said. Another key part of their group of young players.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1026534215452684288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s part of our family and represents the best of everything we&#8217;re about on the field, off the field. He&#8217;s another one of these guys that will be a Falcon for life.&#8221; Falcons owner Arthur Blank <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vxmcclure23\/status\/1026539565711011840\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told <strong>Vaughn McClure<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Atlanta Falcons Sign Ricardo Allen to Three-Year Extension<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Falcons took Allen in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL draft. After not seeing the field his first year he has ended up being the starting safety for the team the past three years. And he has proven to be very reliable over that span managing to rack up 158 tackles, 10 passes defended, and six interceptions. He is also a great leader in the locker room and a huge part of the team&#8217;s culture.<\/p>\n<p>After making the playoffs each of the past two seasons the Falcons have ultimately\u00a0fallen short of becoming world champs. By maintaining all their keys players for the long term the team hopes to achieve\u00a0that goal. Allen played a huge part in the Falcons finishing ninth in yards allowed and eighth in points last season.<\/p>\n<h2>A Busy Summer for the Falcons<\/h2>\n<p>Allen becomes the third Falcon to receive an extension this summer. The team also handed out extensions to quarterback <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/R\/RyanMa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Ryan<\/a><\/strong> and left tackle <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MattJa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Matthews<\/a><\/strong>. In between those deals, the Falcons were also able to restructure <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JoneJu02.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julio Jones<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; contract situation to ensure he got a pay raise as well.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Thomas Dimitroff doesn&#8217;t\u00a0look to be done handing out extensions yet either. Look for players such as defensive tackle <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JarrGr00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grady Jarrett<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BeasVi00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vic Beasley<\/a><\/strong> to be next in line for contract extensions.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"BXXQYbaZQqJpaLGUYyJFow\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/900134272\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'BXXQYbaZQqJpaLGUYyJFow',sig:'XC5vccJQPweOsXJMqqXUNKpV6IDKGeRG8a1WuFlxIMQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'900134272',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons continue to re-sign some of their top players as they handed out a new contract to safety Ricardo Allen Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2470,"featured_media":46940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[27],"tags":[7727,1969],"class_list":["post-46922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-falcons","tag-atlanta-falcons-news","tag-ricardo-allen"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46922","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\/2470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}