If that is indeed the case, they got their man. Regardless of what anyone has to say, they targeted a guy that they wanted and were able to grab him without making any moves up the draft. The issue becomes, why did they think they had to move up to grab him in the first spot?
Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff stated that the team thought at one point they were going to have to move up between picks 9 and 12 to be able to draft A.J. Terrell. Look, we get it, all the available information to the public is very different than what the NFL teams individually use to assess players.