Atlanta Falcons: Top Five Defensive Players

The Atlanta Falcons have a defense on the rise heading into 2017. Here are the top five players from that defense.

“Offense wins games, defense wins championships” is how the old saying goes. A year ago, the Atlanta Falcons won plenty of games behind the offense on the way to Superbowl 51. This season, the birds will hope that organic defensive growth will be enough to put the team over the top in Superbowl 52.

Atlanta boasted an unimpressive 25th ranked defense in 2016, but don’t let the stats deceive you, this is a unit on the rise.Following the bye week (and change in defensive play-callers from Richard Smith to Dan Quinn) Atlanta’s defense gave up just 17.83 points per game in the last…