Steven Jackson News

Atlanta Falcons : Bradie Ewing was ticketed for the starting fullback job as a rookie last season.

Even though it's a passing league, fantasy teams need their running back stables to be, ummm, stable.

Time for our morning run through the top headlines from around the division: ATLANTA FALCONS National Football Post lists running back Steven Jackson as one of its top comeback fantasy players for the upcoming season.

Even though we are still 4 months away from the 2013 season getting underwait's never too early to predict how well the Atlanta Falcons will do next year starting with the first half of the season.

The Atlanta Falcons weren't the only squad to add rookie talent in April . While every team has added important pieces to the respective rosters, there will always be a special place for keeping tabs on rival squads and what sort of talent they've brought in for the upcoming season .

The thought of trying to predict what the Atlanta Falcons final 53 man roster and practice squad would be in May is preposterous when the final decisions won't be made until September.

As training camp rosters are finalized, an unmatched optimism protrudes into the air for all 32 teams.

In the seemingly quiet period of the NFL, you know that period of time between the NFL Draft and the remaining free agent signings, one is left to shape their teams from pure, unadulterated fandom and speculation.

Dec 30, 2012, Seattle, WA, USA; St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson is tackled by Seattle Seahawks defensive end Red Bryant during the third quarter at CenturyLink Field.

Do a quick Internet search for " Atlanta Falcons " and "win-now mode." You'll find results that go back to 2011 asserting that the Falcons are, in fact, in "win-now mode," and have been in said mode since the blockbuster trade to acquire Julio Jones via the draft.

Now that the NFL draft is behind us we can start exploring the 2013 fantasy football kicker landscape.

The New Orleans Saints missed the playoffs last year as the Atlanta Falcons opportunistically leapt to the top of the division.

"It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth". - Vincent Van Gogh.

It would be hard to find an acquisition that seemed more inevitable than Steven Jackson, who had been linked to the Falcons for weeks leading up to his signing.

General manager Thomas Dimitroff has found another gem for the Atlanta Falcons ' offense.

In one of my favorite time-killing activities every year during the month of May, I've begun compulsively scanning fantasy mock draft websites to see who like-minded people are drafting in the early rounds.

Contrary to popular belief, not every NFL team is headed in the right direction this offseason.

Often we see talented players that spend all of their careers with a losing team join a legitimate contender near the end of the career for the chance to win a title.

Jen Floyd Engel, selected the top columnist in the 2012 Associated Press Sports Editors annual contest, had covered local sports for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram since 1997 and had become a columnist in 2003 before joining Fox Sports.

Jan 13, 2013; Atlanta, GA, USA; Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux and Peria Jerry tackles Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch during the second quarter in the NFC divisional playoff game at the Georgia Dome.