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This page is a list of the Atlanta Falcons NFL draft selections. The first draft the Falcons participated in was 1966 , in which they made linebacker Tommy Nobis of Texas their first-ever selection.
The Atlanta Falcons, a professional American football team based in Atlanta, are part of the National Football Conference South Division. They joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team for the 1966 season and became the first NFL franchise in the Southeastern United States. [1]
The Falcons would lose to the Giants 27–14. The only bright spot of the game was a 90-yard 3rd-quarter touchdown run by Warrick Dunn, the longest touchdown run in Atlanta Falcons history. The Atlanta Falcons hoped to bounce back the next week against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they did so with a huge game.
2023 record: 7-10, missed playoffs Draft picks per round. 1st Round: No. 8 2nd Round: No. 43 3rd Round: No. 74 3rd Round: No. 79 (from Jaguars) 4th Round: No. 109 5th ...
The Atlanta expansion team became the 15th NFL franchise, and they were awarded the first overall pick in the 1966 NFL draft as well as the final pick in each of the first five rounds. [20] They selected consensus All-American linebacker Tommy Nobis from the University of Texas , making him the first-ever Falcon.
Profit was selected in the first round of the 1971 NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons. He was the first running back in Atlanta Falcons’ history to ever rush for 169 yards on 21 carries and two touchdowns in a single game. [6] NFL Hall of Famer, Norm Van Brocklin, said “Joe was the best running back in the United States of America.”
The Falcons ranked close to the middle of the NFL team leaders with 42 sacks in 2023. It was a dramatic jump from 2022, when they had only 21 and 2021, when they were last with 18.
NFL draft: 1991 / round ... (2011–13), Atlanta Falcons (2006–10 ... in 26 years and to back-to-back bowl appearances for the first time in school history.