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Atlanta Falcons draft history

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4816063 ↗
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This page is a list of the Atlanta Falcons NFL draft selections. The first draft the Falcons participated in was 1966, in which they made linebacker Tommy Nobis of Texas their first-ever selection. The Falcons have had the number one overall pick four times in their history.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Atlanta, Falcons and draft providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Atlanta Falcons draft history” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.