Which stood out during the practice of hawks

Watch Nash, but impressed by Polk: As mentioned earlier, I spent a lot of time looking at the passing smugglers during Friday training (mainly because Pearce and Walker were on another field where I could not venture, but I get lost). I may have taken diligent notes on what I saw from Watts, but it was actually Makai Polk that I thought I had the most triggered during training.

Polk is a receiver which is already on the list of Falcons (having signed a reserve / constraint agreement in January), but participated in training on Friday. He was a free agent of the state of Mississippi, where in his only season with the Bulldogs, led the dry with 105 receptions for 1,048 yards and nine affected. Since he joined the League in 2022, Polk has spent time with the Ravens and the Giants. More recently, however, Polk played for Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League. It was where Polk shone, finishing the 2024 season with five 100 yards in the last seven games of the regular season.

At 6 inches, 192 pounds, Polk’s length and confidence were in the midst on Friday. It is the type of player who is the presence that I felt immediately, to the point of feeling confident that no matter where the ball was, Polk was going to descend it. He made one of the best sockets of the day, transporting a pass of 25 yards of Emory Jones at the heart of the field and surrounded by three defenders, rising and exceeding one to make the seizure.

Between Nash and Polk – as well as other veteran receptors that we will see later – I think that Falcons are in fact in a very good place with regard to competition in position.

Quickly climb: By entering the draft of the NFL 2025, I said a few times that the Falcons had to release several defensive starters from the group. Between Walker, Pearce, Xavier Watts and Billy Bowman Jr., I think they may have done that exactly. And that said Morris on Friday, is the wait.

So much so that I would say it was the quotation of the day:

“Make no mistake,” said Morris, “we are going to have real intentionality to play our recruits this season and put these guys on the grass, see who can play important football for us.”