FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons have placed edge rusher Bralen Trice on injured reserve, the organization announced Thursday.
Head coach Raheem Morris said Trice aggravated the same knee that kept him off the field for the full 2024 season. Morris continued by saying the Falcons do not know the severity of the injury, but that it could mean a procedure is on the horizon for the second-year edge rusher.
"If it's the best-case scenario we have discussed, it is the bye (week)," Morris said in terms of a potential return for Trice.
Trice was listed on the teams' initial roster Tuesday prior to being placed on injured reserve. Therefore, he will be available to return this season, as Morris said. Players who go on injured reserve during the season must miss a minimum of four games before returning to play. Teams can designate up to eight players to return from IR during the regular season. That number goes up to 10 players if the team in question makes the postseason. The Falcons have already used two of their return designations on offensive tackle Storm Norton and defensive tackle Ta'Quon Graham.
Once a player on IR is cleared to return to practice, it opens up a 21-day window in which the player much be activated to the active roster. If they are not, they must be placed on season-ending IR.
As previously stated, Trice missed the entirety of the 2024 season — his own rookie year — with a knee injury sustained in the Falcons' first preseason game in Miami last year. Working back to health, Trice returned to the field for Falcons' training camp this August. He was an active part of the Falcons' defensive line rotation throughout camp. Though he did not play in the team's first preseason game of 2025, he did see a little action in Week 2 of the preseason against the Tennessee Titans and then again in Week 3's preseason finale in Dallas. In both outings, he played roughly 33% of the defensive snaps (21 snaps against the Titans and 20 snaps in Dallas).
