The Atlanta Falcons could’ve been buyers at the trade deadline this year. Fans are starved for a winner in Atlanta, considering the last winning season was all the way back in 2017, and they’re sitting at 4-4 and atop the NFC South. It would’ve been easy to go get somebody, anybody, to enhance their divisional chances in 2022 and earn some goodwill at the cost to their cap space and draft capital.
That’s not what they did, though. On Tuesday, we got the shocking news an hour before the trade deadline that the Falcons were moving Calvin Ridley for compensation that bottoms out as a 2023 6th rounder and 2024 4th rounder, and can escalate to a 2023 5th rounder and 2024 2nd rounder.