The Atlanta Falcons won't be afraid to trade up in this week's draft, despite having just six picks and none in the first round according to D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “If you feel that you want to package picks to go up and get the player that you feel can help the team, well, then you use your draft picks as fodder to go after that player,†Dimitroff said. “The draft is set for a team to be able to bargain and to be able to use what you have to pull in the players that you need, the players that you think you need to help your team be successful. We feel in the past that we’ve been able to utilize those picks more effectively by using part of them as trade bait. It allows us to build our team with players through the draft, educate them, school them on and off the field to be the type of players that we are looking for them to be as an Atlanta Falcons football player,†Dimitroff said. “I think it sends a very strong message to our locker room, and that’s something that is very beneficial in the team building process.†Source: The Redzone
well, and i also think that the falcons believe they are right there at the 'cusp', so if there is one player they think can put them over the top, i could see them going for it.
