Every front office has its draft habits. Under Thomas Dimitroff, the Falcons virtually never traded down and often traded up in the first round, had a habit of picking defensive backs on the second day for better or for worse, and habitually picked players not named Kemal Ishmael in the seventh round who didn’t wind up sticking around.
Under Terry Fontenot and company, the Falcons have been picking in the top ten and have had many selections to work with, and we’ve seen what certainly look like habits forming over the past couple of seasons. Two drafts does not a trend necessarily make, but here are three consistent themes across the past two drafts that we’ll see either continued or broken in 2023.