Will Atlanta Falcons Undrafted Free Agents SHATTER Expectations? 53-Man Roster Projection

Will Atlanta Falcons Undrafted Free Agents SHATTER Expectations? 53-Man Roster Projection

Who stays? Who goes? Let’s predict the Falcons 53man roster. You are Locked On Falcons, your daily Atlanta Falcons podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. Welcome back everyone to another illustrious episode of the Locked on Falcons podcast. Your daily Atlanta Falcons podcast, part of Locked on Sports Atlanta, your team every day. And guys, if you do not know me, I’m your very humble host, Aaron Freeman, aka Mr. Drew, aka the Jolly Green Giant, aka Mr. AKA, and I’ve been covering the Atlanta Falcons for almost two decades. formerly at falfans.com podcasting for over a decade still going strong here on Locked on Falcons podcast and I thank each and every one of you go strong with me as everydayers that means you make this podcast your first listen each and every day and all you got to do to become an everydayer is subscribe or follow for free on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcast to get the latest episode as soon as it is available. So today we are breaking down the 53man roster. We’ll be looking at offense, defense, special teams. The guys I think will be on this 53man roster plus 16 dart throws on in terms of the practice squad. But one of the things I always pride myself on, you know, two and a half months ahead of training camp is be able to predict that 53man roster with 90% accuracy in part due to, you know, my immaculate ability to build a 48man roster. That’s going to be the guys that you’re going to be playing with each and every week. Uh, and then you go from there. And, you know, you do the math on the 48 man. It’s like two quarterbacks, eight offensive linemen, 11 offensive skill players, uh nine DBs, 14 front seven players, three special teamers, and then like one other guy left over depending on where you need some help due to injuries and other various things uh and whatnot, you know, special teams and all that stuff. So, always a good time to to sort of look ahead to this uh Falcons roster and some of these key training camp battles as we sit here, you know, more than two months ahead of training camp. But we’ll start off with the offense. We’ll get to the defense and special teams. And then we’ll talk about some of those remaining holes that we could see the Falcons wind up addressing between now and the start of training camp. But uh without further ado, let’s get into that 53man roster projection for the offense. I have the Falcons keeping three quarterbacks, Michael Penn, Kurt Cousins, and of course, four-time national champion Een Stick, the Stson Bennett of the FCS. Uh yes, Kirk Cousins will be here in Atlanta. I do not see a trade happening as I’ve maintained since January. Uh and so, you know, got to die on this hill at this point uh and continue dying on that hill. Three running backs making the Falcons roster. Bjan Robinson, Tyler Aier, Jace Mlullen. Six wide receivers and Drake London, Darnell Mooney, Ray Mloud, Cano Hajj, Jamal Agnu, and Casey Washington. Three tight ends in Kyle Pittz, Charlie Warner, and Felipe Franks. the incomparable Felipe Franks and nine offensive linemen Jake Matthews, Matthew Berseron, Ryan Uzel, Chris Lindstrom, Kayla McGary, Storm Norton, Kyle Hinton, Jovon Gwen in the incomparable Jack Nelson. I cannot wait guys that we get to Jack Nelson week here on this podcast sometime in June. I will continue to hype it up and build it up as the greatest week of podcasting that you will ever see. So, 24 players for me on the Falcons roster and then eight more on the practice squad. 24 on the Falcons offensive roster, I should say. Eight more on the practice squad. One running back in Carlos Washington Jr., three wide receivers in Nick Nash, Chris Blair and David Sills, one tight end in Joshua Simon, three offensive lineman in Killian Zir, uh Joshua Gray and Joey Fischer. Again, all these practice squads are basically dark bros. It’s just going to basically be on who of these rookies and and undrafted free agents and former practice squad guys sort of pop in training camp. But I think the most notable battles when we look at the offensive side of the ball are going to be at sort of three position groups for roster spots, right? Wide receiver six, tight end three, and then offensive lineman eight and nine, right? That’s potentially the backup center spot that I have Javon Gwyn winning. That’s the fourth offensive tackle spot that of course no one can unseat the incomparable Jack Nelson for that roster spot, but there will be challengers as well. And so, you know, wide receiver six, I have Casey Washington making the team mostly because of special teams value. Tied in three, I have Felipe Franks making it as that third tight end, mostly because of special teams value. But there’s going to be opportunities for some of these UDFAs especially uh that are getting a lot of buzz uh so far um to potentially, you know, unseat some of these more veteran options, more some of these more established options in these spots. Like you look at that wide receiver spot with Nick Nash. You know, Nick Nash is basically a poor man’s Drake London. Now, for me personally, that skill set isn’t that intriguing because like why do I want a poor man’s Drake London when I already have Drake London, you know? Um, but you know, certainly I think if you’re, you know, potentially looking at options for the Falcons in that slot outside of Drake London, who we know is clearly by far the best slot receiver on this football team, but of course because of circumstances, will primarily continue to be lining up as an outside or at least 50/50 split uh, in terms of outside inside versatility. You know, Nick Nash does have some developmental potential. Again, to me, the ideal wide receiver that the Falcons would be developing in that wide receiver six spot is someone who has a little bit more verticality, a little bit more yak ability, uh that, you know, sort of matches a little bit better with Drake London in Darnell Mooney skill set. Guy that can be a little bit more of a vertical threat than Drake London. We know Drake London can win down the field as a contestant guy, but wanting a little bit more speed at that position as well as a guy that can win after the catch uh and bring a little bit more juice uh in terms of that ability. you know, you just sort of look at Puka Naku and what he does with the Rams is the ideal skill set and Drake London is kind of bridging that NUA skill set with the Cooper Cup skill set skill set. Uh, and so again, that’s what you’re ideally looking for. Nick Nash isn’t really that guy to me, but certainly uh offers some potential upside and developmental upside as a slot receiver. Uh, that backup center spot, Jovon Gwyn. Joshua Gray, I think, is a guy that’s getting a lot of love potentially there. The reason why I went with Javon Guin is just the lack of experience that Joshua Guay has playing center. He spent four years playing left tackle in college, uh, one year playing guard. You know, did work at the Shrine Bowl practices as a center. And so, there is some ability there. But I just think, you know, when you’re looking at it from the Falcons perspective in in the event that Ryan Noo uh goes down with an injury, you want somebody who has like three years of experience playing center like Jovon Gwyn will have uh by the time we get to the end of the summer versus someone who has basically three months of center experience, which is going to be Joshua Gray at that point in time. But the the tight end three spot I think is interesting with Joshua Simon. Um you know where you know that skill set that value for this Falcons team you know when we look at what Ross Dwelly did in that role last year was primarily a blocker and special teams contributor. Those aren’t things that Joshua Simon is particularly known for. He does have a good receiving skill set particularly when it comes to being that underneath pass catcher in in winning after the catch. But I think that’s why guys like Felipe Franks, who’s, you know, was the leading special teams tackler for the Panthers last year, uh, someone like Tegan Qutoraniano, uh, who was a decent blocker for the Texans over the last couple of years. Those guys get the edge. And not to mention, you know, Nicola Kin Linich who, you know, also has some experience playing in this Rams offense, um, you know, in LA, uh, under, uh, so some knowledge of this offense under Zack Robinson, I think gives those guys a leg up in terms of making the roster, but I think Simon certainly is an intriguing skill set. Again, developmental in terms of what he could be down the road as a pass catcher, particularly given as we sit here today, you know, seems like it’s going to be Kyle Pittz’s last year. So, I uh in Atlanta. So, we’ll see how that develops and and sort of having a guy that if Simon can really ball out this summer and showcase that pass catching ability, um you know, that could change the math for these guys, but I I don’t have uh undrafted free agents making the Falcons 53man roster. All of these guys could if they come in and ball out this summer, but I think when we look at the Falcons offense, and it’s a little bit of a different story with the defense, slightly different story, but the Falcons offense, you know, I think because they expect this offense to be sort of the breadwinner for this football team in terms of the thing that’s going to help them win the majority of football games, you know, I do think going with some more established, proven options in some of these spots than, you know, going with some of these rookies, uh, particularly in the undrafted, uh, free agent group, um makes a little bit more sense just because you’re going to need guys that are going to be able to contribute, you know, if and when they get those opportunities due to injuries or whatnot. And it’s not as if like the Falcons aren’t young already on the offense where like seven other top 13 guys on offense are on rookie deals and whatnot. And so like, you know, the expectation to me is that core is going to continue to grow in the years to come for the Falcons. that’s their vision, I think, as opposed to like, oh, we got to get more young body, more young talent in here and whatnot. Like, that’s to me more something for the future. But we’ll see on that front. It’s a little bit of a different story with the Falcons defense where they are much younger on that side of the ball and how does that impact some of these roster battles that we’re going to get into? And we’ll break all of that, guys, down as we continue today’s lockdown Falcons. So, the NBA playoffs are in full swing and every night delivers highlight worthy performances, major momentum shifts, and can’tmiss moments. Whether it’s the game-winning shot or a breakout player, there’s never been a better time to get in on the action. And FanDuel’s making it easy to stay in the game before tip off and live during the game. 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And then we have five linebackers. Kay Nellis, Devon Diablo, Troy Anderson, JD Bertrren, and Josh Woods. And then we have five corners with AJ Terrell, Mike Hughes, Clark Phillips, Mike Ford, and Natron Brooks. And then five safeties, Jesse Bates, Jordan Fuller, Demarco Helms, Xavier Watts, and Billy Bowman Jr. And you can’t see it on the graphics on the depth chart I’ve thrown up on screen, uh, but the three special teams players are what you expect. Young Wayu, Bradley Pinion, and Liam McCulla. Now, as far as the practice squad is concerned, I have seven defensive players on the practice squad. Defensive lineman Leil London, edge rusher Khal Karim, linebacker Malik Verden, three corners in Keith Taylor, uh Dante Manning and Kobe Bryant, and one safety in Benny Sap. And of course, that last practice squad spot goes to the German sensation Lenny Cre uh Junior. I don’t know if he’s a junior or not, but you know, since Falcons are adding so many juniors to the roster and everybody’s just adding junior and senior to their names now, Kyle Pittz senior and whatnot, you know, might as well just just start saying calling everybody a junior and senior at this point. The fourth and the third and everybody’s a Trey and all that stuff. So, um those are the 26 defensive players I have, uh plus, uh the um three special teamers and the eight practice squad guys on that side of the ball. And again, the biggest competitions I think, you know, there’s going to be a lot more competition, I think, across the group for the defensive side of the ball. You know, you have that fifth defensive lineman right now where I have Contavia Street winning that spot. But I think Taquan Graham and Lel London are very strong candidates for that. If you’re wondering why I didn’t have Taquan Graham making the practice squad, just because I assume if the Falcons do cut Taquan Graham, someone will scoop him up off of waiverss and he’ll be playing for somebody else this year. Uh, obviously one question mark that I know a lot of people have, um, is whether or not David Onata is going to be on this team by the time we get to training camp. And, you know, it’s a possibility. Again, it’s been something that we’ve been speculating since January that David Anyada had played his last snap snap in Atlanta. So far, the Falcons seem to be keeping him. Basically, it seems like, especially if they’re going to move Zack Harrison out to edge and, you know, potentially have Brandon Doris dabble as an inside outside guy as well. you know, that having another more proven body, particularly, you know, someone that, you know, is a little bit more proven, I guess, than the youth group that they have at DTackle makes a little bit sense. So, I’m starting to basically believe, I guess, you know, he’s still on the roster on May 5th and seems like he’s still going to be on the roster on August 5th and then September 5th and and so on and so forth when it comes to David Anyada uh at this point in time. So, uh, I think that Dline, that backend Dline spot is going to be a very intriguing battle, whether it’s Street Graham, London, or somebody else. Uh, linebacker five, that fifth spot at the linebacker position, which is going to be between Josh Woods and D’Angelo Malone. If you noticed on the depth chart, I had D’Angel Malone listed as a Sam linebacker, uh, as the quoteunquote backup to Troy Anderson in that. And my projection for the depth chart was looking at the Falcons as a 4-3 team as opposed to what we have been assuming all this time uh which is more of a 3-4 team. Uh and so I think that will be an interesting battle where the Falcons, you know, and reason why DJ Malone is not on my practice squad is because of his special teams value. If he gets cut, he’ll probably get scooped up by somebody else out there and whatnot. And then, you know, you have the fourth and fifth quarterback spot where I think there are three locks at quarterbacks. AJ Terrell, Mike Hughes, Mike Ford being that third lock due to his special teams value uh and and being a gunner on the punt team. And then I think because Billy Bowman is expected to dabble as a nickel corner, I think the Falcons can afford to not keep, you know, more than five corners. Like normally they would keep six on the roster. Uh but because Billy Bowman sort of can, you know, function as a both a backup and and depth piece at safety and corner, uh given their expectations for them, they only keep five uh corners. And you know that competition for those last two quarterback spots based off of my projection is going to be potentially one of the more intense battles and one of the bigger talking points that we’re going to have when we get to training camp between Clark Phillips, De Alford, Natron Brooks, uh Kobe Bryant, Kevin King, Keith Taylor. All of those guys are going to be in the mix. I have Phillips and Brooks making the roster. Phillips just because I think the Falcons still want to get something out of the fourth round draft pick from two years ago as well as Brooks being a guy that just because he has that more proven special teams background and so he’ll be able to find a role on this team even if he isn’t uh you know necessarily an elite cornerback in that and that gets to um you know the other competition before we turn our attention to Kobe Bryant in the undrafted free agents is of course the kicker spot. I have Young Wu winning that spot. We’ll see again decent chance at Lenny Creek. uh can you know unseat Young Wu. So, we’ll see on that front. But um you know, let’s talk about Kobe Bryant and that cornerback competition. For me, I’m a fan of Kobe Bryant. I see him projecting more as a nickel and just because I think there’s so many other options that the Falcons currently have on the roster at nickel quarterback. It’s why I’m not projecting a guy like Kobe Bryant as an undrafted free agent to make the Falcons 53man roster because you have De Alfred coming back. You have Clark Phillips uh coming back. You have Natron Brooks who has some experience playing at nickel. And when we think about Natron Brooks, while he spent the bulk of his time during last summer playing outside corner, when we got to the regular season, he spent the bulk of his time playing that slot cornerback role. Uh, and when we talk about what you value in a nickel quarterback, we like that guy that’s willing to stick his face in the fan. That’s why the Falcons like a guy like Billy Bowman at role. And the other guy on this roster that we saw throughout the preseason last year that is more than willing to stick his face in the fan is Natron Brooks. Uh and Kobe Bryant has that same skill set, but I just don’t know if that’s going to be enough for Kobe Bryant coupled with some of these guys that are a little bit more inside outside vers more proven inside outside versatility at the NFL level u to for him to unseat those guys. Now, I know Kobe Bryant spent the bulk of his time playing as an outside corner and in college, but I just don’t think Kobe Bryant has the athleticism to hold up long term in that role. And so, if he’s going to make it in this league, I think he’s going to have to make it as a nickel quarterback. Uh, and just because I think the Falcons have enough bodies there, that’s one of the reasons why I’m not projecting Kobe Bryant to make the 53 man roster, but I do have him on the practice squad. And so it’s going to be interesting competition for these back-end roster spots on the defensive side of ball. as we discussed with the offense, you know, they they are a young core of offensive players, but they’re really betting on a lot of young pieces to contribute this year on the defensive side of the poll that when, you know, we’ll talk about this a little bit later when we when we look back at last year where one of the things that we talked about sort of the complacency of the Falcons where they believe that they were like 75% built the playoff team and only really focus on adding the 25% of players missing on both sides of the ball last off season to push them over the top. There’s going to be a lot more turnover this year on on particularly the defensive side of the ball. And so we’ll get into that a little bit as we continue and wrap up today’s lockdown Falcons. But that’s a great conversation jumping off point to get into where we want to talk about next, which is where the Falcons could use more help on their roster that they feel mostly content, but are there moves coming potentially between now and the start of training camp? and we’ll break that down as we wrap up today’s lockdown on Falcons. So, say goodbye to sticky notes, scribbled plans on the fridge, and overlapping calendar invites because Skylight Calendar is here to bring clarity to the chaos and help families stay organized without the stress. The sleek digital display syncs with your existing calendars, whether that’s Google, Apple, Outlook, and more. and it’s going to make it simple to track appointments, practices, dinners, and reminders all in one easy to see place. And for me, I know if I don’t put something in my calendar, I will completely forget about that. And that’s pretty bad when you’re trying to line up guests for podcasts uh over the course of the summer. 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That you know, I would probably we’ll it’ll be interesting to see once we get into the next couple of weeks over the next month or so when all these various uh you know, ESPN’s and NFL networks and they they do their roster rankings and their position rankings and all that where the Falcons wind up in there. I I remember last year I was like, “Yeah, they’re like the 18th best roster in the NFL.” Um, and again, that’s good enough that if the coaches are doing their thing, uh, they should be able to get to nine wins and that’s the bet that the coaches are making on themselves, but I remember last year, you know, a lot of people were telling the folks, you know, that, oh, this this is one of the 10 best rosters in football and I was just like, what are you guys talking about? Like, what what was that? I, you know, again, I’m not sitting here to to dunk on the Falcons, but it’s just one of those things that we those people and then we get to the end of the season, we’re like, man, we need like seven or eight new starters on defense. like, “Yeah, man. If you were a top 10 roster, you wouldn’t need that many, uh, you know, upgrades on either side of the ball.” But, um, you know, going back to what I said earlier where we talk about, you know, the turnover for this Falcons roster, right? Last year, we had 75% of the Falcons top 16 players on either side of the ball, offense and defense, based off of uh, you know, how many snaps those guys top 16 snap getters were new faces, right? And so or 75% were players that were on the team the previous year. 25% were new faces. Now it wound up being a little bit higher than 25% on offense just because of Michael Penn. But those four players of the top 16 were Kirk Cousins, Darnell Mooney, Ray Mloud, Charlie Warner, and then Michael Pennix by year’s end. And then on defense, it was a similar story with Matthew Jonan, Justin Simmons, Eddie Goldman, and James Smith Williams being the new faces. Uh and when we sort of project out like the top 16 players on offense this year in terms of you know again we don’t know what injuries are going to do and affect that but uh you’re only you’re not really looking at any new players on offense this year. You are looking at expanded roles for guys like Ryan Nel and Michael Penn right you know do we see more of Jace McClullen as RB3? Do we see more of whoever winds up winning the tight end three spot due to various injuries or or whatnot? Or, you know, Lord knows could could Zack Robinson use that third tight end like a fullback or, you know, actually run some 13 personnel more than like 1% of the time. Like, oh, that could that would be an interesting wrinkle for Zack. But, you know, more on that uh in the coming months when we talk about all the interesting wrinkles that Zack Robinson is going to unveil. So, continue to make Lock on Fox your first listen. But, uh, we’ll see a lot more new friends, you know, if if DJ Khaled, uh, you know, could be quoted, right? No new friends on offense, but lots of new friends on defense, uh, because of the additions of free agents like Leonard Floyd and Devon Diablo and Morgan Fox and Jordan Fuller. And you got rookies like uh, Billy Bowman and Xavier Watts and Jaylen Walker and James Pierce. And then you got secondyear players like Brandon Doris and Rukauro, JD Bertrren, Brilland Trice. again, guys that were here last year, but certainly were not big parts of playing time, really got no snaps. And so, like, you could see a situation where if we’re looking at the top 16 players on defense, like 50% of those players are new, roughly 15% of those 50% of those players are new, right? And then you’re only looking at a situation where it’s only like 25% of the players um that were top 16 players last year or top 16 players this year. And that’s like Kaden Ellis and Jesse Bates and you know AJ Terrell and Arnold Betty and David Any if you believe he’s going to be around. So, you know, there is a there’s a world where like we have complete turn over on the defense and it’s understandable because it’s like, you know, this unit needs a spark unlike the offense, right? So, when we when we think about that, you know, what does that mean? How does that inform us when it comes to how the Falcons think about the roster? And I think when we look at it from the team’s perspective, I think there’s two positions that you circle that you’re like, hm, I wonder if the Falcons will make a move there. center and no tackle have been those positions that we’ve talked about a bunch over the last couple of weeks and last couple of months. You know, it to me this the Falcons have not prioritized competition at that center spot. They they seem to be a lot higher on Ryan Nul and his ability to perform as a starter um than the rest of the world seems to be, myself included. Um you know, maybe we get a signing before training camp, but I tend to be skeptical of that because again, if the Falcons thought that they needed to bring in competition, you know, March was the perfect time. there were plenty of options, veteran options out there available for them. They chose not to do that. They chose not to draft a center, right? Like a lot of people thought they would. So, all the indicators are like the Falcons are very content with Ryan Nel. Again, whether you and I are very content with Ryan is a different conversation, but the Falcons are very content. But again, there’s a possibility that, you know, we get to July or whatever and the Falcons are like, you know what, let’s let’s get that veteran. You know, if if they are going to bring in someone like a David Andrews, who the name gets thrown around a lot, like you’re probably not going to bring in David Andrews today, you might wait till July because David Andrews has to figure out if he’s going to retire or not, if he gets that itch to come back and play and be like, I want to play for my hometown or my home state team uh in the Atlanta Falcons. So, that may happen. I again, I’m skeptical of that at this point in time, but we’ll see. Uh no tackle. We’ve been talking about needing more of that widebody run plugger. Um, you know, but again, as we’ve mentioned briefly before on the podcast, and we’ll probably wind up discussing a lot more, you know, in the coming days and weeks on the podcast when we talk about the defensive scheme. Um, you know, if you’re going to major in that Jets wide nine defense that Jeff called with the Jets the last four years, that scheme doesn’t really utilize a one technique nose tackle like most 4-3 teams and most 3- four teams do nowadays with these hybrid fronts that want that sort of widebody nose tackle, whether you’re in the 34, whether you’re in a 4-3, uh, whatnot. And so the fact that the Falcons have sh seemingly shown no interest in that is a another strong indicator that that’s the direction that they plan on going in terms of their defensive front. Uh and so we’ll just sort of have to see. But that to me is the one area where I do think the Falcons can definitely afford to get better at uh just to get more beef in the middle of the defensive line to help stop the run. U but we’ll see on that front. So, you know, I think if the Falcons are going to, you know, make additions to their roster between now and training camp, I do think that Dline room makes more sense. You you look at how many players that the Falcons carried along the Dline and edge rushers uh going into training camp last year, that was 20. Right now, they sit at 17, right? So, there’s still more opportunities to bring in one or two more, if not three more bodies there. And then one of the things I think you should be on the lookout for will get the rookie mini camp um you know this weekend. Uh and usually the Falcons pretty consistently under Terry Fontino will sort of reshuffle their roster. They’ll cut you know uh they’ll they’ll bring in some tryyout guys. They’ll sign one or two of those guys that stand out in that initial tryyouts and maybe cut you know a UDFA here, a futures contract guy they signed back in January here or there. So there is usually some roster reshuffleling in midmay after that rookie mini camp which begins I believe March May 9th and and finishes on May 11th. Um so we’ll see on that front and you know some areas where you could see the Falcons sort of trim down the roster a little bit. Wide receivers won again because they carried 12 into crane training camp last year. They currently have 14 on the roster right now. Uh offensive line they have um they carried only 15 last year. They’re currently carrying 17. That includes Ryan Nusel, who technically has not signed his restricted free agent tender. I know there’s been some confusion about like Ryan Nus hasn’t signed his contract. What does that mean? It doesn’t mean anything. Ryan News is a restricted free agent. The opportunity for him to change teams past like two weeks ago, uh, a week before the Thursday before the draft was the the final deadline. And really, his not signing a contract is functionally meaningless. It just means he hasn’t actually inked his deal. And that basically means that the Falcons technically are saving $3 million against the salary cap because he hasn’t signed his contract. Uh and so that that to me is the main reason why you haven’t seen that happen. It’s just it gives the Falcons a little bit more cap space until they’re ready to sign all the rookies and sign Ryan Noo, which will probably happen in in the coming days and weeks. Uh you know, so that will be something to look forward to. So um we’ll see uh on that front. So there’s a couple of you know roster reshuffling in terms of what the Falcons could wind up doing. I think between now and training camp, but I’m not currently expecting any major moves if if they are going to bring in an established player that may be a nose tackle, a Foley Fakasi who played for Nate Ali uh in a couple of spots, Houston last year, the Jets uh four years ago. Um and so he makes a ton of sense if the Falcons are just going to get that widebody nose tackle. But outside of that, you know, again, if David Andrews basically gives the Falcons a call and say, “Hey, I’m ready to come back and I want to come in and compete for the job.” maybe then I think the Falcons bring in a veteran center. But if not, then I think they’re pretty much close to having the core of their, you know, 90man roster um heading into training camp. And so we’ll see if they reshuffle some backend guys, bring in some try out guys and whatnot. Um who who was the player? Wasn’t it? Um Bradley and I think was one of those players that they tried out last summer and and brought to training camp. So those types of moves um I think you know make sense for the Falcons. So we’ll see what they wind up doing. But tomorrow’s episode I think we will be joined by Derek Clawson of the Athletic uh to talk about his thoughts on the Falcons draft as well as his thoughts on Michael Penn Jr. and his breakout potential uh this upcoming season. So that is all in store for you guys on the next Lockdown Falcons. Continue to make us your first listen by subscribing or following free on YouTube uh or wherever you listen to podcast. And of course, check out all the great shows across the Locked on Podcast Network as your second list, including the Locked On NFL Scouting Show, breaking down the postdraft stuff, breaking down teams that have remaining roster holes. Uh Kyle Krabs and Joe Marino giving you the scoop on how to build an effective roster on the Locked On Scouting Podcast. And it’s all part of Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Go Wolves.

With the Atlanta Falcons’ offseason winding to a close, have they made the necessary moves to field a solid 53-man roster this season? Host Aaron Freeman projects which players will stick around on the roster and practice squad, while breaking down key position battles. He highlights the fierce competition at wide receiver, tight end, and cornerback. He also discusses potential roster improvements, focusing on center and defensive tackle positions, speculating on the possible additions of veterans David Andrews and Foley Fatukasi. Will the roster moves the Falcons have made so far lead to a successful season?

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