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Trice

The Falcons selected Trice in the third round of this year’s draft. The former Washington Husky had been performing well in camp and was seeing work with the first-team offense, and may have earned a spot on the starting defense after a few more strong weeks of camp. Instead, Trice, who totaled 18 sacks and 28.5 TFLs in three seasons with the Huskies, will now spend his rookie campaign rehabbing in hopes of coming back healthy next offseason. The Falcons will likely address the loss of Trice in the coming days, and could look to bring in another outside linebacker to fill the void now left by the rookie.

Trice (6’3/245) was rated as a high three-star 2019 recruit who didn’t see the field for his first two seasons on campus before breaking in with 14 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks in 194 part-time snaps. He emerged as a force to be reckoned with in 2022, creating a nation-leading 70 pressures with 9.0 sacks for a phenomenal 91st percentile pass rush grade. The First Team All Pac-12 edge somehow managed to improve on his eye-opening 2022, recording 80 pressures with a 17.6% overall win rate (10th in P5) and 29% win percentage from true pass sets (4th in FBS). From a production standpoint, Trice was without peer having propelled the Washington defense to a CFP National Championship appearance, and verified his talent on the analytics front with back-to-back seasons of 88th percentile PFF overall grades. Trice performed each test at the Combine and performed reasonably well running a 4.72s 40-yard dash that ranked 16th out of the 22 player edge class, and a 4.19s shuttle that was a 96th% time. However his 32” vertical (55th%) was the second-lowest mark from the 2024 edge class, and 20 bench reps is hovering in the 42nd percentile of NFL edge defenders. PFF graded the Falcons pass rush as the league’s fifth worst in 2023.