A brief Falcons draft history: The 1990s

The Falcons made three playoff trips from 1966-1989, earning their reputation as one of the NFL’s consistent basement dwellers. The 1990s finally brought more success for our favorite football team and put Atlanta on the map somewhat, as they equaled those three playoff trips in a decade and made their first ever Super Bowl appearance.

You can credit much of that fine work to their drafts, both the best of the late 1970s and early 1980s and the terrific work the front office did from 1990 on. Atlanta’s draft classes brought in role players and stars from nearly every round, and they really only had a small handful of genuine draft busts along the way. That enabled them to have some early…