Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The 2021 draft pick’s time with Atlanta is over. With a new coaching staff in Atlanta this offseason, it was always likely that we’d see some roster turnover. The Falcons did keep several key coaches around and have maintained a surprising amount of roster continuity to this point, all things considered, but as the spring and summer wear on that could well change. It did on Thursday, as the Falcons released 2021 NFL Draft pick and outside linebacker Ade Ogundeji. It was not difficult to see this move coming. Once envisioned as a significant ..read more

Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports On divisional tiebreakers, tough stretches, and favorable matchups. The Atlanta Falcons schedule dropped last night, with all the pomp and circumstance you’d expect from literally anything the NFL does now, and we now know how things line up for our favorite team in the 2024 season ahead. It actually wasn’t that difficult to get a little amped about the schedule release this year because I’m legitimately intrigued by the season ahead, what with the major changes to the coaching staff and roster. We also knew that the Falcons hardly had the most intimidating set of o ..read more

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta’s full 2024 slate is here. We’ve been waiting on the Atlanta Falcons schedule for a while now, and with free agency quiet and the NFL Draft over, it’s the ideal time for the NFL to crash through the plate glass windows of our consciousness again. They’ve done so by releasing the 2024 schedule this evening. As is custom, the Falcons unveiled one of the league’s better schedule videos to do so. ATL Streets Vol. ’24@NFL Schedule Release @NFLNetwork | NFL+ pic.twitter.com/Co46Sbhec8 — Atlanta Falcons (@AtlantaFalcons) May 16, 2024 The team is lined up for fo ..read more

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images The NFL schedule release is here, and hosts Kevin Knight and Adnan Ikic are joined by Aaron Freeman (Locked On Falcons) to break down the Falcons’ 2024 gauntlet. Fellow Falcoholics, welcome to episode 287 of The Falcoholic Live! The NFL schedule release is here, and hosts Kevin Knight and Adnan Ikic are joined by Aaron Freeman (Locked On Falcons) to break down the Atlanta Falcons 2024 gauntlet. Atlanta is rumored to have at least four primetime games after having zero in 2023, and are reportedly facing a particularly brutal start to the year. Watch the stream ..read more

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta adds depth to their secondary with their final roster spot. The Atlanta Falcons now have a full 90 man roster, with their final signing for the moment arriving on Wednesday afternoon. Atlanta has grabbed cornerback Anthony Johnson, adding more depth to the secondary as they gear up for organized team activities and mandatory minicamp in the weeks ahead. Johnson, 24, spent time with the Saints and Packers on their respective practice squads but did not appear in an NFL regular season game in 2023. An undrafted free agent out of Louisville and Virginia, Johns ..read more

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images It’s about time. The Atlanta Falcons have not exactly been primetime darlings in recent years, a function of being neither particularly good nor particularly exciting. The team was scheduled for just one primetime game in 2021 and 2022 and zero in 2023, marking just two contests under the bright lights for Atlanta in the Arthur Smith era. They lost both of them. Things are different now. The eyes of the NFL are on the Falcons thanks to the Kirk Cousins signing, the high-profile flirtation with hiring Bill Belichick and subsequent hiring of Raheem Morris, and ..read more

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta would like special teams to be a strength again in 2023, and they’ll rely on familiar faces and a couple of key new additions. Younghoe Koo missed a couple of crucial field goals. Bradley Pinion was not quite as great at pinning teams deep. The coverage units suffered from a handful of frustrating, costly lapses. The return game was...well, let’s not even bother. Special teams has been a core Falcons team strength for a long time now, with the first two years under coordinator Marquice Williams proving to be excellent before last year’s vague disappointment ..read more

Photo by Kara Durrette/Getty Images Take our survey, and share your thoughts in the comments! Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Atlanta Falcons fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Free agency is behind us, the draft is behind us, and all that’s left to do between now and training camp is endlessly speculate about what this Falcons team will look like when they hit the field. The Falcons have made a lot of moves this offseason, including big swings wit ..read more

Photo by Lauren Leigh Bacho/Getty Images Atlanta has been holding off on adding to the secondary in a meaningful way, but perhaps Jacobs changes that. The Atlanta Falcons have one roster spot remaining, and I think I speak for most Falcons fans when I say that we’d like to see that spot filled by either a capable pass rusher or someone who can help out in the secondary. It appears the Falcons may be leaning toward the latter. I say that because they’re reportedly spending time with cornerback Jerry Jacobs today, which could mean a signing is on the way if all goes well. Jacobs spent the past t ..read more

Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports Gotta catch ‘em all, where “all” is former San Francisco tight ends. The Atlanta Falcons’ coaching staff must have seen something they liked in the San Francisco 49ers tight end room last year, because they’ve just added their second player from that room. The team announced Monday that they have signed Ross Dwelley, as well as officially brought aboard three players who tried out for the team during rookie minicamp. We’ll start with Dwelley, the headliner of sorts here, who has been a fixture as a reserve for the 49ers since 2018. He’s appeared in at least 11 games ..read more