Despite a promising start, the Atlanta Falcons’ 2024 season unraveled over the final eight games. The team finished with a record of 8-9, missing the postseason for the seventh year in a row. Now that the Falcons have hired Jeff Ulbrich as defensive coordinator, they can look ahead to free agency.
Unlike the last two offseasons, the team is short on salary cap space, limiting what general manager Terry Fontenot can do. Atlanta must decide which of its 30 impending free agents to re-sign in 2025. Defensively, the team has 17 players set to become free agents when the new league year begins.
After breaking down the Falcons’ top five offensive free agents, we’ve ranked the team’s top five defensive free agents entering the 2025 offseason below: