Now that the initial free agency frenzy is out of the way and our thoughts are turning back towards the draft, there was one other change in Atlanta's scouting department that hasn't been widely covered. Atlanta's former national scout, Mark Olson, has moved on and joined the scouting department in Detroit.
On the surface, this is at best a sideways move for Olson. He was the most experienced member of Atlanta's college scouting team, having been with the franchise since 1998. Unfortunately, the changes in our front office and scouting department over the last two years had thrown extra speed bumps in his way towards advancement within the organization, which had in the past been big on promoting from within.