{"id":114973,"date":"2024-04-26T01:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=114973"},"modified":"2024-04-26T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:09:22","slug":"mel-kiper-pegs-falcons-to-draft-to-one-of-these-two-prospects-tchieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/mel-kiper-pegs-falcons-to-draft-to-one-of-these-two-prospects-tchieu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Kiper pegs Falcons to draft to one of these two prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are at the home stretch. The NFL Draft is nearly here, and there doesn\u2019t seem to be much agreement about who the Falcons will take.<\/p>\n

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Mel Kiper pegs Falcons to draft to one of these two prospects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas Turner has been the popular pick for much of the offseason, but that narrative has begun to shift in the last couple of weeks.\u00a0As of this morning, Turner and Laiatu Latu are the co-betting favorites to be the 8th pick, with both edge defenders sitting around +165 odds.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re followed by Byron Murphy and Rome Odunze at +650. Latu and Murphy have surged up draft boards and betting odds in recent weeks, but it\u2019s truly anyone\u2019s best guess.<\/p>\n

The Godfather of Mock Drafts, Mel Kiper, believes that it will be one of two prospects, and it\u2019s not the co-betting favorites, either.\u00a0Kiper believes that the Falcons will take the first defender,\u00a0but it\u2019s between Turner and Murphy, not Latu.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Falcons\u00a0will take the first defensive player in the draft:<\/strong>\u00a0I see this as edge rusher\u00a0Dallas Turner\u00a0(Alabama) or defensive tackle\u00a0Byron Murphy II\u00a0(Texas). The Falcons\u2019 defensive line was rough last season. Atlanta finished 32nd in pass rush win rate (30.9%). I have Turner ranked higher on my board (No. 9 vs. No. 27), but many teams see Murphy as an impact interior pass-rusher, which has increased his value.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Murphy is a guy that might not appeal to many Falcons fans. After all, an interior defender? Atlanta already has a menacing interior duo of Grady Jarrett and David Onyemata. It\u2019s a position of strength, and the edge unit is clearly in need of an influx of talent.<\/p>\n

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Well, there\u2019s more than one way to skin a cat, and there\u2019s more than one way to rush the passer. A defense\u2019s pass rush is made up of two primary components \u2014 coverage and pressure.<\/p>\n

The Falcons need a cornerback and an edge defender, but pressure can come from anywhere, including the interior. Murphy may be an unconventional draft pick based on the team\u2019s roster need; however, Terry Fontenot has never been shy about adding to a position of strength \u2014\u00a0\u00e0 la Bijan Robinson and Tyler Allgeier.
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There\u2019s also a possibility that Atlanta trades out of the 8th pick to accumulate more draft picks and still takes a defender. Like I said, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s best guess a few hours away now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are at the home stretch. The NFL Draft is nearly here, and there doesn\u2019t seem to be much agreement about who the Falcons will take. Dallas… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":114974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114975,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114973\/revisions\/114975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}