The Falcons have announced the signing of 7 undrafted free agents:
Isaac Brown, LB, Central Michigan;Jimmie Kaylor, P, Colorado State; Glenn Sharpe, CB, Miami, Fla.; D.J. Wolfe, S, Oklahoma; Brandon Miller, DE, Georgia; Jamar Brittingham, RB, Bloomsburg; and Michael Butterworth, OT, Slippery Rock.
The Falcons, already happy with getting their next franchise QB, moved back into the first round Saturday and got Matt Ryan or whoever plays QB some help, as they nabbed OT Sam Baker from USC. Baker is 6-foot-4, and 309 pounds, and while his stock seemed to drop as the draft got near, the [...]
Can the Falcons get back to being competitive? They think so, and will start that phase with a quarterback, as Saturday they passed on DT Glenn Dorsey of LSU and instead went with QB Matt Ryan, the senior QB of Boston College. Ryan will be the start of a new regime with the Falcons, as [...]
Falcons new GM Thomas Dimitroff says that the team has been looking at options with their number three pick in Saturday’s draft. The GM says a few teams have contacted the Falcons about the pick, and that he is right now in listen mode. “Right now there’s nothing concrete at all,” Dimitroff said of talks [...]
The Macon reported that Falcons standout LB Michael Boley signed a tender offer with the team on April 9. Boley’s tender offer would require the team that beats out the Falcon’s offer to forfeit a first round pick in compensation to the Falcons in next weekend’s draft. Boley had a career season [...]
The Falcons have a lot of work ahead of them to get back to being a competitive team and try and make a run in the NFC South, and that work may very well start at the QB spot, as the team has been taking a hard look at that position. Adam Schefter of NFL [...]
The Falcons get another third-round draft pick this week, giving them a total of 11 selections for the upcoming NFL draft. The league awarded the Falcons an additional pick through its compensatory process where teams are allowed additional picks to offset the loss of high-calibur free agents. Recent losses of Patrick Kerney, Justin Griffith and Ashley [...]
