In the wake of the season-ending injury to starting quarterback Michael Penix Jr., the Atlanta Falcons have made a few moves to shore up the position group for the remainder of the 2025 NFL season. We
all know veteran Kirk Cousins will get a chance to prove he can still sling it in his age 37 season, but the rest of the depth chart was a barren wasteland.
On Wednesday, Falcons head coach Raheem Morris announced the signing of quarterback Easton Stick to the active roster and the signing of quarterback Kyle Trask to the practice squad.
Stick, 30, was on the Falcons practice squad and has been operating as the de facto emergency QB. He also got the vast majority of the team’s preseason snaps at the position, turning in a really impressive game alongside some lackluster performances. Stick was drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers in the fifth round of the 2019 NFL Draft, spending his entire rookie contract there and playing in six NFL games. He signed with the Falcons this offseason.
Trask, 27, was a second-round pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2021 NFL Draft. He spent his entire rookie contract in Tampa Bay, appearing in seven games with just 11 passing attempts to his name. The Bucs released Trask during final cutdowns after training camp, and he’s been a free agent ever since.
Neither of these moves are significant needle-movers for the Falcons, but the team at least has a depth pipeline in case the worst should continue to happen at the position. We’ll see how Cousins performs over the final seven games of the year and if Penix can return, but my money would be on someone else entirely starting for the Falcons in Week 1 of the 2026 season.
