With the draft officially in the books, here’s a look at five players who could potentially lose their starting jobs to rookies this season.
The Falcons kicked off the last free agency cycle with a bang, inking Jessie Bates, David Onyemata and Kaden Elliss to deals as the bell rang. Terry Fontenot did it even bigger this year, agreeing in principle to a four-year, $180 million contract with Kirk Cousins.
As Jay Rodgers was guided into the Atlanta Falcons' indoor practice facility at team headquarters in Flowery Branch, there was lots he didn't know. The names of the staff members directing him to the room.
A look at Wednesday’s practice reports. Wednesday is here, as the Atlanta Falcons prepare to host the Indianapolis Colts. The Falcons Falcon’d last week and lost to a then one-win Carolina Panthers week, and now they’ll try to bounce back against the Colts.
Veteran players can be a proverbial gold mine for NFL organizations, and that is certainly the case for the Atlanta Falcons defense. Falcons defensive lineman David Onyemata was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft, and he remained in NOLA until this year when he came to Atlanta.
The Atlanta Falcons hope to be a different team this Sunday against the New Orleans Saints than they were the last time they played, a 25-23 loss to the Arizona Cardinals leading into the bye week.
The Falcons will get back a couple of key defenders for Sunday’s tilt with the Saints. In his Monday press conference, naturally Arthur Smith had to confirm the reports that Desmond Ridder will be the team’s starter going forward.
The (4-5) Atlanta Falcons are just minutes away from their Week 10 matchup against the (1-8) Arizona Cardinals and they're already off to a bad start. Defensive tackle David Onyemata, who was questionable for Sunday due to an ankle injury, has been downgraded to out versus Arizona.
The Cardinals are getting a bunch of big names back. Two bird gangs face off in a game certain to be... fowl on Sunday. The 1-win Cardinals host the cratering Atlanta Falcons coming off a particularly embarrassing manhandling from an injured Minnesota Vikings.
The Falcons and Cardinals will both be missing players who came into Sunday with questionable listings on their injury reports. Falcons defensive tackle David Onyemata will not play in Arizona.
It says a lot when the offense notices a quarterback's progression. It says even more when the defense takes note. The Atlanta Falcons saw improvement
The Falcons pass rush has been horrific for over a decade, but there was hope that those issues would be a thing of the past after the team allocated significant funds to their defensive line this offseason.
We learned plenty after Sunday’s win over the Green Bay Packers, including players that are ready — and players we won’t know more about this season. The Atlanta Falcons did what many thought was unthinkable, and more remarkably, something that hasn’t been done by this team in years: it started off the season 2-0.
For the first time in quite a while, the Falcons were able to participate in free agency without financial limitations, and the results were a star-studded class, mostly on the defensive side of the ball.
The Falcons finally got out from underneath most of the bad contracts and dead money this offseason. Armed with the second-most cap space, Atlanta spent cash in gobs to bring in high-priced free agents, including Jessie Bates and David Onyemata.
FLOWERY BRANCH -- The Atlanta Falcons defense has largely won the battle of training camp, but the offense fought back during Wednesday’s session at the IBM Performance Center.
When the Atlanta Falcons signed former New Orleans Saints defensive tackle David Onyemata on the opening day of free agency, Arthur Smith had an innate understanding of what his team was getting.
Here are the most overpaid and underpaid players for each team in the NFC South.
Little was known about University of Manitoba defensive lineman David Onyemata when the New Orleans Saints selected him in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft.
The 3-6 Saints will most likely leave the 2022 season with a lot of questions to answer, and no playoff berth to mark Dennis Allen's first year as head coach.
The New Orleans Saints spent a fourth-round selection in the 2016 NFL Draft on a little-known defensive tackle named David Onyemata out of the University of Manitoba in Canada.
New Orleans Saints defensive tackle David Onyemata completed serving his six-game suspension and returned to practice this week. The Saints need his presence on the team's defensive line to win in Week 8's showdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. SAINTS COACHES ON ONYEMATA'S RETURN Sean Payton: "He's one of the starters back.
Onyemata’s suspension will take effect after the preseason, keeping him off the field until late in the fall.
Onyemata previously served a one-game suspension in 2019 for having marijuana in his home.
Entering the 2016 NFL draft, the New Orleans Saints were desperate to fix one of the NFL's worst defenses. They had already used the 12th overall pick in the 1st round on defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins.
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