Unlike the last two offseasons, the team is short on salary cap space which will limit what general manager Terry Fontenot can do. Atlanta must decide which of its 30 impending free agents to re-sign in 2025. Defensively, the team has 17 players set to become free agents when the new league year begins.

They wouldn’t and they won’t, Ulbrich said Monday during his introductory news conference. He said both coaches are better since that coaching staff was swept out following Ulbrich’s tenure as interim defensive coordinator under interim head coach Morris in 2020.