HUGE CUT: Falcons Are Officially Set To Cut Most Value and Experienced QB in June Due to Financial Crisis and Payroll Crisis

For the first time in my life, the Falcons have an abundance of excellent quarterbacks on their roster.

With Michael Vick and Matt Ryan solidifying the position for two decades, there hasn’t been much bad quarterback play in recent years. The position has only been awful in recent seasons.

However, it was a lengthy (and terrible) enough run for Atlanta to entirely revamp the position. The Falcons spent more money than any other team on Kirk Cousins, a high-end bridge signal caller, paying him $180 million over four years.

Cousins, who is in his mid-thirties, isn’t the long-term answer, therefore the Falcons went with Michael Penix Jr. as their first pick. If everything goes as planned, Atlanta will have high-level quarterback play for the next decade or so, but they are not alone in the quarterback room.

I said surplus and I meant it. Taylor Heinicke is still under contract, but the veteran is disposable, thus CBS Sports named him one of the NFL’s post-June 1 cut and trade candidates.

“The former Washington Commanders starter accepted a salary cut to be Kirk Cousins’ backup in Atlanta, but that was before the Falcons turned around and used a top-10 choice on Michael Penix Jr., clogging the quarterback room in the short and long term. “Cutting him would save Atlanta $1.2 million,” Cody Benjamin explained.

$1.2 million in savings isn’t much, and it plummeted after Heinicke agreed to a pay cut earlier in the season. Cutting him for a little more than $1 million does not appear wise; however, if a team needs a high-quality backup at a reasonable price, the Falcons might dangle him in the trade market for a mid-to-late round choice.

Regardless of what happens, I don’t see Taylor Heinicke on the Falcons’ final 53-man roster.