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Atlanta’s day 3 draft selections represent much needed special teams reinforcements

Every team hopes that some of its day three draft selections will be diamonds in the rough who will eventually become Pro Bowlers, but that’s just not the case most of the time.

You can see it with the Falcons in the Thomas Dimitroff era: over the course of a full decade, Dimitroff has made 45 day three draft selections (not counting this draft of course), and out of all of them only Devonta Freeman has made the Pro Bowl. Those diamonds in the rough are there every year, but they’re incredibly difficult to uncover.