{"id":306,"date":"2024-09-21T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:03:53","slug":"bummer-tims-stepinac-football-teammate-now-lv-raider-defensive-end-malcom-koonce-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Bummer. Tim&#8217;s Stepinac football teammate &#038; now LV Raider defensive end &#8211; Malcom Koonce out for season."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e202dad0d0fba6200d-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11133\" title=\"Malocolm koonce\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whew. Koonce had a knee injury just before the season began and it&#8217;s now been determined he will have surgery. This is his 4th season &#8211; end of his contract and he would be hoping to have a great year and then get a big contract from the Raiders or someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5783022\/2024\/09\/20\/raiders-malcolm-koonce-injury-out-for-season\/\">He had eight sacks last year in the last nine game<\/a>s, including three in one game on Mahomes when the Raiders beat Kansas City. <a href=\"&lt;iframe%20width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AX0ynU4dFPs?si=7zTmblFNYczeMwQu&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\">According to this<\/a>, if he had a similar good year, he&#8217;d be in the 12 to 14 million a year contract area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a cool 3 minute video of some of his highlights from last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4E_GSMH-70?si=nFnCMY3jhfuxU54e\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew. Koonce had a knee injury just before the season began and it&#8217;s now been determined he will have surgery. This is his 4th season &#8211; end of his contract and he would be hoping to have a great year and then get a big contract from the Raiders or someone else. He had eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11134,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}