Falcons
Falcons OLB Bralen Trice is going full speed for the first time since his season-ending injury last year. (Tori McElhaney)
Atlanta QB Michael Penix Jr. on the Falcons’ offensive capabilities this year: “The potential? We should be the best in the league. We should be unstoppable. That’s our goal. We want to be No. 1 in all the categories.” (Josh Kendall)
Panthers head of football analytics Eric Eager discussed how the team was reviewing a draft day trade with the Rams which would’ve seen them trade down from pick 8 to 26.
“ There’s just a lot of trying to balance the risk, and talk about the size of the decision we’re about to make, ” Eager said, via Mike Kaye of the Charlotte Observer. “ And I think that doing that is sobering in the sense of making sure that we know that the gravity of the kind of time we put into it versus sort of the shiny object in the moment, which is a trade offer .”
Panthers VP of football operations Brandt Tilis said that team ownership placed a strong emphasis on being analytically-driven.
“ That was something I knew was important to the Teppers — was being data oriented but not necessarily like data driven, and so I knew I needed a strong analytics group, ” Tilis said. “ I’d had a lot of experience with analytics. … So I knew what I wanted and I knew where I wanted to be, and I just knew I needed a lot of help to get there. ”
Tilis knew that he would bring Eager with him to headline the department if he ever got hired in a prominent position.