Comcast Draft Talk: Favorite Falcons Rookie Of All Time

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We've done the best and worst rookies now. It's definitely time for something even more subjective.

You've got to have a favorite Falcon rookie. Maybe it was a one season love affair before the player in question turned back into the NFL equivalent of a pumpkin, or maybe it was a Casablanca moment, the beginning of a long and beautiful friendship. Either way, tell us about it. You won't be judged here.

Just to kick things off, I'll go with Alge Crumpler. I'm not exaggerating when I say I spent weeks after the draft telling my best friend the Buffalo Bills fan all about how great Crumpler was going to be. He certainly never turned into an elite NFL player or anything, but Crump sure was good for a few years, and I loved his talent throughout.

Your turn!

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Tim Dwight.

Not because he was an all-pro or anything, but mainly because he was a sneaky utility pick for the 1998 team. He seemed like a pick that the Steelers might make. A guy who would do just about anything you asked of him. He was running the “Wildcat” a decade before the Dolphins made it popular. He returned kicks and punts. Caught tough passes. Ran reverses. Made one of the sickest throwbacks to Chris Chandler ever.

Exciting additional piece to an already stacked team. Dwight was a thing of beauty.

Side story: I bought an authentic black Dwight jersey during the 1998 season. To this day I still have yet to wash it. And I still wear it. So many beer stains on that jersey.

by Duff_Man on Aug 12, 2010 8:28 AM EDT reply actions

It has to be Matt Ryan.

Cliche pick, I know, but we were all so excited about the way he came in a performed immediately.

This year, I really like Kerry Meier and have high expectations for the kid..

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by TomQ on Aug 12, 2010 8:29 AM EDT reply actions

Prime Time

by JoshuaG on Aug 12, 2010 8:30 AM EDT reply actions

I would love to Say Ryan

but it is too early. I have to agree on Mr Sanders # 21. He put the Falcons back on the map (if they had ever been there). We finally started getting some attention once he arrived.

Life is a garden. Dig it!

by Hardcore Falcon on Aug 12, 2010 8:33 AM EDT up reply actions

I usually don't like flashy players,

but there was just something exciting about this guy when he was on the field. A true game-changer from day one.

Plays that ended with Neon Deion high-stepping to the end zone brought a whole new generation of Falcons fans on board.

Also, a guy who can run his mouth, then back it up and then some is hard not to like. In that regard, Deion was the opposite of D. Hall, one of my least favorite Falcons of all time.

If you were to ask this question a few months from now, I might change my answer to Weatherspoon. I am anticipating him to be one of my favorites for a long time.

by JoshuaG on Aug 12, 2010 8:38 AM EDT up reply actions

Is that Deion or Eazy-E?

by Duff_Man on Aug 12, 2010 9:08 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

um

I believe Easy E is dead my brother.

Life is a garden. Dig it!

by Hardcore Falcon on Aug 12, 2010 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions

I assure you Eazy was alive in 1989.

by Duff_Man on Aug 12, 2010 11:26 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

im not so sure

I heard he died of AIDS. I think he would have died before 89. I could be wrong though. I am no Eazy-E fan, so I couldnt tell you for sure.

Life is a garden. Dig it!

by Hardcore Falcon on Aug 13, 2010 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions

I think he died after…before 92’ though. Only reason I know is I have some old Black Eyed Peas music, and Will I Am and him were like BFF’s

by Mattyice318 on Aug 13, 2010 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Neon was electric. My favorite, so far.

Rule #1: Double tap.

by Ball Hawk on Aug 12, 2010 8:48 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

Matty Ice

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by southman on Aug 12, 2010 9:41 AM EDT reply actions

Probably Keith Brooking

He was a Tech man, after all…

I remember liking Mike Pritchard a lot, too.

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by orang3b on Aug 12, 2010 10:07 AM EDT reply actions

what not votes for

Duckett?

Life is a garden. Dig it!

by Hardcore Falcon on Aug 12, 2010 11:11 AM EDT reply actions

Hindsight is 20/20...

… but, I’ve got to go with Vick on this one. Sure, his Falcons’ tenure devolved into an absolute mess, but the vast majority of Falcon nation was losing its collective mind with excitement after he was drafted.

by athfalcon on Aug 12, 2010 11:24 AM EDT reply actions

T.J. Duckett here..

I was really hoping he was going to turn in to another “Iron Head” Heyward or JA 32 but alas it didn’t happen. I kept telling my best friend (a Saints fan no less, my brother likes the Panthers so we three have had a bit of a NFC West/South thing going on for years) how he was just going to tear things up and I was going to laugh as he dominated the Saints. It is ok though because I got to laugh at him for Reggie Bush not being the next Barry Sanders.

by Falcons Fan in WA on Aug 12, 2010 11:46 AM EDT reply actions

Relatively new fan

so it’s gotta be Ryan. I was a big fan of D.J. Shockley at UGA but then he ended up never doing anything.

by ArthurDank on Aug 12, 2010 3:35 PM EDT reply actions

Prime

He is the reason this Jersey guy is a Dirty Bird supporter.

by LK2121 on Aug 12, 2010 7:52 PM EDT reply actions

Jerious

There are few things more exciting than a breakaway run, and Warrick Dunn just wasn’t bringing those anymore. In stepped Jerious Norwood, the rook. Every carry he had, if he got past the first group of defenders, you thought he might take it all the way.

by JMar99 on Aug 12, 2010 8:57 PM EDT reply actions