As I’ve said before, most of the players on our Forgotten Falcon list were good, fun or both, but rarely did they spend more than a decade with Atlanta and make their mark on the team’s record books in multiple categories. If they did, they’d be remembered fondly, right?
Things get trickier the further back you go in Falcons franchise history, though, and pre-1990s there are a ton of guys who just aren’t remembered as well as they should be. Players like Claude Humphrey made it to the Hall of Fame and are properly recognized for their greatness, while Steve Bartkowski, William Andrews, Alfred Jenkins and other luminaries of the 70s and 80s played more visible positions and are probably at least familiar to newer fans.