Falcons Draft Strategy: Score Big with Marvin Harrison Jr.?

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00:03 Why would the Atlanta Falcons, with one of the worst wide receiver depth charts

00:07 in the NFL behind Drake London, why would they not take Roma Dunzey and

00:11 just say, you know what, we signed Kirk Cousins to this contract,

00:15 let's just score 28 points a game and see what happens?

00:18 >> Well, there's some logic to it, and I'll say this much.

00:22 One, here's the amount of stock you put in those mock drafts.

00:26 Falcons need a pass rusher, Falcons always need a pass rusher.

00:28 The first one available, just get him to Atlanta.

00:30 That's the reason those mock drafts go that way, not because Dallas Turner's

00:33 mocked to be the sixth or seventh or eighth best player in this draft by any

00:37 stretch of the imagination, not a knock on the young man,

00:39 it's just the reality of the situation.

00:41 It's not a very deep defensive end draft.

00:42 So beyond that, there is merit to what you're saying.

00:45 And I'll do you one better here, Davis, because I have legitimately proposed this.

00:49 That if quarterbacks end up going one, two, three, and four, if I am the Falcons,

00:55 I pick up the phone and trade up to number five and grab Marvin Harrison Jr.

00:59 Because he is the player at his respective position in this draft.

01:04 That's what I would do.

01:05 Now, I sat in the press conference yesterday with Terry Fontenot,

01:08 the Falcons GM, and even asked him about this very question.

01:12 Because the Falcons have selected at eight now, three years in a row, and

01:17 they would have taken a pass catcher in three of the last four years

01:22 with their first round pick, and the optics of that do not look good.

01:26 The last time I remember that happening,

01:28 I think you gotta go back to Charles Rogers with the Detroit Lions.

01:32 Can we go back to those three picks?

01:33 You guys remember that?

01:34 When they were in the top five and they selected wide receivers, three of them,

01:37 I think Mike Williams at USC was the other one, if I remember, Donnie, right?

01:41 So I'm old, I'm eight, I'm old.

01:44 So the optics of taking pass catchers three years and

01:47 three of the last four years is not what really looks good as a strategy.

01:53 Now, again, I'm saying if you're gonna get a pass catcher here,

01:58 go get the very best one, move heaven and earth and go get Marvin Harrison Jr.

02:02 If that's really what you want, I don't really know that Malik Nabors and

02:05 Romain Dunes are of that same level.

02:08 I think we know that Marvin Harrison feels like the most sure thing in

02:11 the first round.

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