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Atlanta Falcons QB Targets Malik Willis, Matt Corral Get NFL Draft Red Carpet
From the Scouting Mix to 30 Visits to NFL Draft weekend, we shall be your moment-by-moment Atlanta Falcons information.
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Kyle Pitts
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APRIL 14 MALIK TO VEGAS Atlanta native Malik Willis, who’s within the working to be the Falcons’ decide at No. 8, is certainly one of 21 prospects attending the NFL Draft in Las Vegas on April 28.
The checklist additionally contains Georgia Bulldogs Devonte Wyatt, Jordan Davis and Nakobe Dean and Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral.
APRIL 11 TERRELL’S TEAMMATE? The Falcons are assembly with Clemson CB Andrew Sales space Jr., according to Jordan Schultz.
Sales space Jr. earned 1st-Crew All-ACC honors in his junior season after recording 37 tackles and three interceptions.
If Sales space Jr. grew to become a Falcon, he would reunite along with his faculty teammate A.J. Terrell, who performed within the Tigers secondary with him again in 2019 when Terrell was a junior and Sales space a freshman.
APRIL 11 PARTNER FOR PITTS? The Falcons are assembly with UCLA TE Greg Dulcich at present and tomorrow. In accordance with NFL Community, Dulcich has met with over half the league previously month as he auditions for his new NFL dwelling.
Dulcich logged 42 receptions for 725 yards and 5 touchdowns final season with the Bruins.
If Dulcich turns into a Falcon, he’ll seemingly be concerned in a number of 2-TE units with final 12 months’s high draft decide Kyle Pitts.
APRIL 10 MYJAI’S IN TOWN The Atlanta Falcons are assembly with Cincinnati defensive lineman Myjai Sanders.
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Sanders, 23, recorded 41 tackles, together with 7.5 tackles for loss and a pair of.5 sacks in his senior season at Cincy, the place the workforce went undefeated within the common season.
If Sanders have been to be drafted by the Falcons, it will end in a return to the state the place he performed his last two years of highschool soccer.
APRIL 8 A TRIO OF QUARTERBACKS
Malik Willis
Matt Corral
Sam Howell
The Falcons have scheduled visits with three of the highest quarterbacks within the draft class … Liberty’s Malik Willis, Mississippi’s Matt Corral and North Carolina’s Sam Howell.
Willis, Corral and Howell are set to satisfy with a variety of groups this month and will go anyplace from the highest 10 to the top of Day 2. In a 12 months the place the quarterback class doesn’t stack as much as the 12 months prior and with each workforce holding a veteran backup plan in place, there is not any direct QB-team connections heading into the draft.
APRIL 5 THIBS TO ATL? The Atlanta Falcons are set to satisfy with Kayvon Thibodeaux on the west coast sooner or later earlier than the draft, in line with Pro Football Network’s Aaron Wilson.
Thibodeaux is likely one of the greatest go rushers within the draft class and has a good likelihood to be off the board when the Falcons are on the clock at No. 8. Nevertheless, if he fell, it seems the Falcons would have curiosity within the Oregon Duck.
MARCH 24 TWO REBELS VISITS ATLANTA The Falcons are set to make use of two of their high 30 visits for Ole Miss defensive again Jaylon Jones and defensive finish Sam Williams, in line with Pro Football Network’s Aaron Wilson and Around The Block.
Jones recorded 25 tackles and an interception throughout his last season with the Rebels. He additionally has two return touchdowns in his profession. Williams recorded 22.5 sacks in three seasons in Oxford, together with 12.5 this season.
Jones and Williams are late-round prospects, and Jones might very effectively go undrafted, nevertheless it seems the Falcons are utilizing their visits to canvas all phases of the draft slightly than simply the highest.