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These quarterbacks have started at least one game for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. They are listed in order of the date of each playing at quarterback for the Falcons. Matt Ryan (2008–2021)
The Falcons have also shared a playoff rivalry with the Green Bay Packers as much of the connections between the two teams stems from Atlanta trading future hall-of-fame quarterback Brett Favre to the Green Bay on February 11, 1992, in exchange for a first-round pick.
This is a list of players who have appeared in at least one regular season or postseason game in the National Football League (NFL) for the Atlanta Falcons. This list is accurate through the end of the 2023 NFL season .
Kirk Daniel Cousins (born August 19, 1988) is an American professional football quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL draft.
The Falcons would lose to the Giants 27–14. The only bright spot of the game was a 90-yard 3rd-quarter touchdown run by Warrick Dunn, the longest touchdown run in Atlanta Falcons history. The Atlanta Falcons hoped to bounce back the next week against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they did so with a huge game.
The Falcons' regular-season mark of 10–6 qualified them for the playoffs. However, they were defeated by the eventual Super Bowl XLVI champion New York Giants in the Wild Card Round by a score of 24–2, marking the fewest points in a postseason game in Falcons' history. [143] In the loss, Ryan was 24-of-41 passing for 199 yards. [144]
Bartkowski was chosen with the first overall pick in the 1975 NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons (after the Falcons acquired the pick in a trade with the Colts). [3] Bartkowski was the NFL Rookie of the Year as well as The Sporting News NFC Rookie of the Year in 1975. [4] He was the first client of sports agent Leigh Steinberg.
Starting quarterback Donovan McNabb told reporters he gave coach Andy Reid the idea to sign Vick. [77] Vick was activated to the 53-man roster in mid-September and played sparingly for the rest of the season as McNabb's backup. [78] In week 13 against the Atlanta Falcons, Vick both threw and ran for a touchdown, his first scores since December ...