Frankly, every Falcon is going to be worth watching, but here are six I’ll be keeping an especially close eye on tonight.
QB Desmond Ridder
We won’t see much of Ridder, in all likelihood, so each snap we do see will feel weightier. That’s especially true because I’m not certain he’ll play in the preseason finale against Pittsburgh, making this potentially our lasting look at him before the regular season.
I don’t need to see—and am not expecting—Ridder to light the world on fire in the brief glimpse we do get. What I would like to see is sharp play early on, something we didn’t see in last season’s four game audition for a player who can tend to start slow, and the kind of command of the offense that we know Ridder is capable of and that Arthur Smith loves to talk about.