Falcoholinks: All the Falcons news you can use for Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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Adam Rank is about to become your new favorite NFL analyst, Bobby Petrino recognized as one of the worst NFL hires of the century, and all the other Falcons news you need today.

It’s the slowest time of the NFL offseason, but that doesn’t mean we’re not curious what’s happening with our Atlanta Falcons. Right now we are just days away from players reporting for training camp, and we’re enjoying the fact that Adam Rank projected the New Orleans Saints to go 2-15 this season — and there’s still plenty of Falcons and NFL news to talk about.

We’re bringing back the daily(ish) Falcoholinks post to round up all the news you can use, and to give the community an open thread for the day to discuss all things Falcons in the comments.

Atlanta Falcons news

Falcons Bijan Robinson and Jessie Bates land at Nos. 35, 40 on Pro Football Focus’ Top-50 2025 list. The players were ranked by analysts Dalton Wasserman and Trevor Sikkema, and the remainder of the list will be released over the next couple of days. – Pro Football Focus
Bobby Petrino sucks, according to CBS Sports’ Cody Benjamin. Benjamin ranked the ~~coward~~ former Falcons head coach the second-worst NFL coaching hire of this century. – CBS Sports
Kaden Elliss was snubbed from NFL executives, coaches and scouts off-ball linebacker rankings collected by ESPN. Elliss did receive at least one vote, but it wasn’t enough to even land a spot on the Honorable Mention list. – ESPN
Speaking of Kaden Elliss, Terrin Waack has a great preview of the inside linebacker position on the team’s website. – AtlantaFalcons.com

NFL news

I know I already mentioned this, but it bears repeating: Adam Rank is projecting the Saints will finish the season 2-15. I hope we’re calling him Adam Rankstrodamus by the end of the season. – Canal Street Chronicles
Shemar Stewart is calling the Bengals’ bluff and may consider returning to Texas A&M. At least we’re not Bengals fans. – Cincy Jungle
And this move from Shemar Stewart may well blow up the NFL Draft. This is really interesting analysis from Justis Mosqueda. – Acme Packing Company
The Jets have been busy! Cornerback Sauce Gardner and wide receiver Garrett Wilson have both signed contract extensions this week. – Gang Green Nation

ICYMI

Hop into the comments and let us know what state and/or country you live in for the great Falcoholic census of 2025! – The Falcoholic
We just have eight days to go before the Falcons report to training camp. Get ready for the preseason with our position reviews for the edge rushers and wide receivers. – The Falcoholic

From the comments

Atlien001

I have London as an easy top 10 receiver, frankly I have him flirting with top 7-8. Frankly I think he has been plagued with sub-par QB performance his first three years in the NFL. His stats have been weighed down from stints from Mariota, Ridder, and Heinicke. He has had a few good performances from Cousins and Penix under center. The decline of Cousins last year, and Penix taking over as a rookie still did not produce the WR1 numbers we want though. Some games he felt completely forgotten (trust me I have him in my dynasty and there were multiple games last year where he got 2 and 3 targets). To me he needs this at least every quarter honestly. Bijan running well should allow some good matchups with single coverage. Hopefully Penix can deliver, I know game script gets thrown out the window depending on what is happening, but FEED LONDON will be what I’m screaming in my living room this year.

From Mooney and Ray-Ray I’m expecting more of the same (and I’m happy with that). Good options to have as possession receivers, especially for some of the over the middle stuff. We need these guys to be constant producers with what they are given.

The elephant in the room here is Pitts. What will we get from him this year? I know it’s all doom and gloom when we talk about Pitts, he was the 12th ranked TE last year in fantasy. I know we didn’t draft him for that (4th overall) he is down there with Njoku and Otton performance-wise. The lack of touchdowns for him is admittedly baffling, but the looks he is getting need to improve as well. He got as many targets as Freiermuth last year (if your wondering Freiermuth was ranked 9th). That has to be increased, I want to see him around 95-100 targets this year. That is Kittle/Ertz usage, if this is in fact the last year he is wearing the Red and Black give him a chance to ___ or get off the pot. We went all in on the talent, we need to see if we have a real difference maker or not.