Should Sean Weatherspoon be a Starter? (source: YardBarker)

After reading a great discussion in Dawson Devitt’s The Bird Cage about Mike Johnson, it got me thinking how the Falcons should use their first round draft pick, Sean Weatherspoon. D. Orlando Ledbetter has the Mizzou star beginning the year rotating at both outside linebacker positions with starters Mike Peterson and Stephen Nicholas.

While this seems a likely scenario, everyone in Atlanta knows that Weatherspoon will be in the starting lineup sooner or later. I say sooner. You don’t spend a first round draft pick on somebody to play them situationally or as part of a timeshare. I know the goal was to bring him slowly, learning alongside Peterson, but I think the Falcons will name Weatherspoon the starter before week one.

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