There are also seven NFL draft picks, three undrafted free agents and CFL alum/NFL newbie Dee Alford in the team’s initial collection of new players. And, after some anticipated roster shuffling in coming days, the volume of new guys on one-year deals will increase.
That brings us to another term you’ve heard a bunch, one that ties directly into this transition period.
That’s what the Falcons use to describe one-year deals regularly handed out this offseason. Lorenzo Carter’s here on a prove-it deal. So is Rashaan Evans and KhaDarel Hodge and Damien Williams and Bradley Pinion and many more.
Play well and prove worthy of a bigger, lengthier compensation package from the Falcons or somewhere else. Nearly out of a sticky salary-cap situation and excited to reward their own, there will be opportunities for the best of this group stick around.
These young players want to prove worthy of their draft status, or show they were taken too low, by making an early impact and becoming part of a promising young foundation already featuring Kyle Pitts, A.J. Terrell and Chris Lindstrom.
Nobody personifies this prove-it mentality more than Marcus Mariota. The former No. 2 overall NFL Draft pick is out to re-establish himself as an NFL starting quarterback and lead an offense featuring plenty of firepower at the skill spots, including Pitts, Drake London and Cordarrelle Patterson.
They’re all trying to prove better than expectations attached to them by those watching from a great distance.
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