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As the Falcons and Football "dead zone" rolls on, thought it would be a good idea to take a look at all of Thomas Dimitroff's NFL Draft classes and see which ones were the best and which ones weren't as good.

Analysis: No one can accuse General Manager Thomas Dimitroff and Coach Mike Smith of standing pat after the Falcons' 13-win regular season in 2012 and Super Bowl near-miss, with a narrow loss to the 49ers in the NFC title game.

All four NFC South general managers like to talk about the importance of building through the draft and they mean it.

Cornerback Robert Alford was too good for the Falcons to pass up in the second round of the NFL draft on Friday night, even though Atlanta also selected a cornerback in the first round.

Coming at you with another exercise in futility, this is my second and final full-length mock draft in which I haplessly loft darts at a board and hope the pick sounds feasible.