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was signed by the Dallas Cowboys on February 28 Calvin Ridley Womens Jersey , 2009 where he would play for three seasons. Following the 2011 season, with the emergence of linebacker Sean Lee, the Cowboys decided not to re-sign him. On August 6, 2012 Keith Brooking signed a one-year deal with the Denver Broncos. Following that season in which he started 14 games, Keith Brooking retired from the NFL.Outside of football, Keith Brooking established The Keith Brooking Children’s Foundation in 2003. The foundation located in Atlanta was inspired by his mother who was a foster parent while he was growing up. The foundation serves the needs of foster children in metro Atlanta. In 2002, Brooking was named the Atlanta Falcons’ Man of the Year for his extensive community involvement. He spent much of his offseason time raising awareness for his foundation and visiting local schools. In 2007, Keith Brooking was named to the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame. I became a Falcons fan at age 6, during the 1996 NFL season. The first NFL Draft I watched was in 1998 when Keith Brooking was selected. Brooking goes down in Falcons history as one of the best linebackers the team has had, and trust me, they have had their share.Let me know in the comments below some of your favorite Keith Brooking memories. As always Youth Calvin Ridley Jersey , you can find me on Twitter @EvanBirchfield. Additionally, make sure to follow @The_Falcoholic on Instagram for up-to-date news and information. Thanks for reading, Falcoholics. The Falcons would not trade two first rounders for Davenport in this scenario."We’re in the middle of draft season, meaning that it’s a perfect time to dip our toes into the re-draft waters, looking back on where the rookies of yesterday would be selected if there were a chance at a draft do-over.SB Nation did a 2018 re-draft, and the results are both favorable and amusing for the Atlanta Falcons. Naturally, in a re-draft, you want your team’s draft pick to go higher than where he originally went — that indicates a very savvy and smart selection. Conversely, if your draft pick goes later than where your team originally selected him, then that’s less than ideal.Calvin Ridley was Atlanta’s original selection, at pick No. 26. In the 2018 season Calvin Ridley Men Jersey , he led all rookies with 821 receiving yards and 10 receiving touchdowns. The Alabama product also led all wide receivers in the NFL (not just rookies, all of them) in separation creation, via NextGen Stats. Translation: Ridley is already one of the best route runners in the NFL.In the re-draft, Ridley gets selected by the Buffalo Bills at pick No. 16. Buffalo’s original selection, inside linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, goes to the Saints two picks earlier at 14.SB Nation had the following to say about the Ridley pick to the Buffalo:Ridley going higher than 26 would be expected after the season he just had. He had no business falling to 26 in the first place. What’s really amusing, however, is who SB Nation has going to the Falcons at that pick in the re-draft.Marcus Davenport, for whom the New Orleans Saints sacrificed their first-round pick in 2019 to move up, falls from 14 all to the way to Atlanta at 26. And hey, the Falcons would get him without trading their first rounder in 2019. What a concept.Here’s what SB Nation had to say about the pick:Davenport is a solid prospect Color Rush Calvin Ridley Jersey , but he’ll have to transcend New Orleans’ pass rush for him to be worth the two first round selections they invested in him. That hasn’t happened yet — in his rookie season, Davenport played in 13 games and totaled 4.5 sacks, which would rank fifth on Atlanta’s roster. He also had 12 QB hits, which would be third among all Falcons.The Saints sure could have used more pass rush than they got in the NFC Championship Game — they totaled just one sack of Jared Goff in a game where they lost in overtime. They also could’ve used more than the four receptions for 36 receiving yards Michael Thomas gave them, and they surely didn’t need the interception Drew Brees threw in the extra period, but I digress.New Orleans will be without picks in the first, third, and fourth rounds come the NFL Draft. Not ideal for a team that just went all in to come up short this past season.