{"id":862607,"date":"2026-04-09T21:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862607\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:48:30","slug":"falcons-build-up-the-trenches-with-two-picks-in-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862607\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons build up the trenches with two picks in Top 100\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Earlier this week <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/news\/nfl-mock-draft-top-50-linebacker-jacob-rodriguez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">we put together a Top 50 mock draft.<\/a> We did so because of the obvious reason: The Falcons do not have a first-round draft pick in 2026. So, we dipped into the second round for our first mock draft.<\/p>\n<p>The second mock \u2014 that you are now reading \u2014 is tweaked ever so slightly. All of the first-round picks from our previous mock remain the same, but we finagled the start of the second round so the Falcons could focus solely on the trenches. That, and we&#8217;re going all the way to pick No. 100. So, the Falcons have another decision at No. 79 to also make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Earlier this week we put together a Top 50 mock draft. We did so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,19,224,7,49567,997,4002,88,6,2299,107702],"class_list":{"0":"post-862607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-draft","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lee-hunter","15":"tag-memphis","16":"tag-mock-draft","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-texas-tech","20":"tag-travis-burke"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116376958640654016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}