Landing spots for Georgia football safety Richard LeCounte
By Eric Taylor
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons could use a playmaking free safety. In 2020 the Falcons’ safeties combined to have three interceptions and one forced fumble. That number is down from the five combined interceptions and one forced fumble by their safeties in 2019. As a whole over the last two seasons, the Falcons’ secondary has a combined 17 interceptions.
A ball-hawking safety like LeCounte would do them a lot of good. In just five games this season, LeCounte had three interceptions. That is almost a turnover a game and would have been tied for the lead for interceptions for the Falcons’ secondary. Blidi Wreh-Wilson had three interceptions in 15 games. Over LeCounte’s last 19 games he has grabbed seven interceptions, that’s one every three games.
Typically the Falcons do not seem to draft Georgia football players, but they cannot afford to pass up LeCounte. Their secondary desperately needs a playmaking safety like him, especially with Keanu Neal being a free agent this year. It would be a smart move to let the injury-prone vet move on to another team while drafting the younger, less expensive, ball-hawk.
The Falcons can’t afford to screw this up. They need to make the easy call and pick up a player that could plug right in and be their starting free safety for the next four to ten years.