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Draft Selections
Drake Maye Head Shot
PICK: 8 RND: 1 (ATL)
Drake Maye
QB North Carolina
Troy Franklin Head Shot
PICK: 43 RND: 2 (ATL)
Troy Franklin
WR Oregon
Brandon Dorlus Head Shot
PICK: 57 RND: 2 (ATL)
Brandon Dorlus
DE-EDGE Oregon
Caelen Carson Head Shot
PICK: 74 RND: 3 (ATL)
Caelen Carson
CB Wake Forest
Cooper Beebe Head Shot
PICK: 88 RND: 3 (ATL)
Cooper Beebe
OG Kansas State
McKinnley Jackson Head Shot
PICK: 92 RND: 3 (ATL)
McKinnley Jackson
DL Texas A&M
Dominick Puni Head Shot
PICK: 109 RND: 4 (ATL)
Dominick Puni
OT Kansas
Cole Bishop Head Shot
PICK: 139 RND: 5 (ATL)
Cole Bishop
S Utah
JD Bertrand Head Shot
PICK: 201 RND: 6 (ATL)
JD Bertrand
LB Notre Dame
Jase McClellan Head Shot
PICK: 224 RND: 7 (ATL)
Jase McClellan
RB Alabama
Hayden Hatten Head Shot
PICK: 244 RND: 7 (ATL)
Hayden Hatten
WR Idaho
Draft Picks Received
Brandon Dorlus Head Shot
PICK: 57 RND: 2 (GB)
Brandon Dorlus
DE-EDGE Oregon
Cooper Beebe Head Shot
PICK: 88 RND: 3 (GB)
Cooper Beebe
OG Kansas State
McKinnley Jackson Head Shot
PICK: 92 RND: 3 (GB)
McKinnley Jackson
DL Texas A&M
Cole Bishop Head Shot
PICK: 139 RND: 5 (NE)
Cole Bishop
S Utah
Jase McClellan Head Shot
PICK: 224 RND: 7 (NE)
Jase McClellan
RB Alabama
Draft Picks Traded
Cam Hart Head Shot
PICK: 145 RND: 5 (NE)
Cam Hart
CB Notre Dame
Kingsley Eguakun Head Shot
PICK: 189 RND: 6 (NE)
Kingsley Eguakun
C Florida
Players traded away
Head Shot
Desmond Ridder
QB
Draft Grade — Falcons
Overall D
ValueB NeedB+ TradesF FutureB-
Quarterback settled, Maye in the fold, and a D for the Falcons.

They will call it conviction in the building and a reach everywhere else: Hayden Hatten, 57 picks early at No. 244. A D that will need time and luck to look better.

The trade table is where this weekend went wrong. Drake Maye is the bet, and the class will be judged on how it pays off. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through tight end.

Getting Franklin where they did is the sort of value that quietly makes a class.

Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even, and tight end is still a hole.

Pick Analysis
Pick8 Rnd1 Drake Maye
In No. 8 they get the face of the franchise. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Pick43 Rnd2 Troy Franklin
Troy Franklin is a better player than pick 43 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick57 Rnd2 Brandon Dorlus
They paid sticker price for Brandon Dorlus in Round 2, Pick 25, and that is fine. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick74 Rnd3 Caelen Carson
A reasonable price with a little left over, Caelen Carson in the Round 3 slot. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
Pick88 Rnd3 Cooper Beebe
Cooper Beebe at slot 88 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Pick92 Rnd3 McKinnley Jackson
A clean, defensible pick in the 92nd pick with a little surplus value in McKinnley Jackson. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Pick109 Rnd4 Dominick Puni
Nothing to complain about; Dominick Puni went a shade earlier than his grade, which is fine. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Pick139 Rnd5 Cole Bishop
A quiet steal in pick 139: Cole Bishop for less than the market said. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Pick201 Rnd6 JD Bertrand
A tidy bit of business in the Round 6 slot, where JD Bertrand graded well above the range. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick224 Rnd7 Jase McClellan
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Jase McClellan at pick No. 224. It fills a real need, too.
Pick244 Rnd7 Hayden Hatten
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Hayden Hatten well ahead of where he belonged. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.