Falcons need to get it right with defensive picks

As a general rule, I try not to project about what an NFL team is going to do in the draft. Two reasons: 1) Almost any front office source who really knows what’s going on is going to lie, an illustration of their desire for disinformation campaigns and to one day work for the NSA; 2) Nobody else knows anything. But they do mock drafts that generate online traffic, which nicely positions them to later grade drafts and call every general manager an idiot (more clicks!).

That said, I’ll mention one mock draft: There is a football analytics site called Pro Football Focus, which sometimes comes up with interesting data but also is viewed with the same blind loyalty that stole lost souls in the…