The most straightforward, cost-effective thing the Falcons could do with their backup quarterback situation would be to just hand the reins to Kurt Benkert. If he’s at all ready to hold the clipboard and be the break-in-case-of-emergency option, Benkert would be the affordable choice and would give the Falcons a young QB who could hopefully be a long-term backup option.
Of course, there’s no guarantee they’ll do that. Dan Quinn has already talked about re-signing Matt Schaub, potentially, and this is a fairly deep market for backup quarterbacks, as those markets go.
Available Options
The actual options
You can eliminate a lot of these guys out of hands, either because they are unimaginably bad or they’ll cost too much on the open market.