Who will make the 2018 Atlanta Falcons practice squad?

We weighed in with a guess at the 2018 Atlanta Falcons 53 man roster earlier today, and now it’s time to think about who might wind up on the practice squad. Obviously, this projection is a lot more fraught than the roster, but we plow ahead because it’s still fun.

In building this practice squad, I tried to draw on prior year trends and not let my positional bias color things too much, but some of it probably bled over regardless. Here’s my selections, plus my rationale.

2018 practice squad candidates

So, why these guys? Let’s take a deep breath and run through.

Benkert because he’s a promising quarterback prospect with flashes of brilliance in his collegiate career. A year as a practice squad…