With their frankly dispiriting loss to the Saints in the books, the Falcons now know where they’ll be picking in the 2022 NFL Draft. After weeks of tracking the ups and downs as the team won and lost, they’ve settled in at the No. 8 selection, where they were trending back at the beginning of December.
That’s the fifth time the Falcons have landed the 8th overall pick. They landed the great Bob Whitfield back in 1992 and saw him start 167 games for the team, but since then their track record with that pick has been more mixed.