Shortly after 254-pound linebacker Prince Shembo admitted to killing a 5-pound Yorkshire Terrier named Dior, the Falcons cut him.
But now that he’s pleaded out of a felony animal cruelty charge and into a misdemeanor and paid a fine, the Falcons could be considering bringing him back.
“I’m sure that we will, but [General Manager] Thomas [Dimitroff] and I have not gotten together on that, at this point,” Falcons coach Dan Quinn said of discussing Shembo, via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “But I don’t have a comment one way or another on that.