{"id":604885,"date":"2026-04-25T03:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604885\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:43:11","slug":"falcons-select-wr-zachariah-branch-at-no-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604885\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons select WR Zachariah Branch at No. 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons are keeping an explosive player in the Peach State. <\/p>\n<p>With the No. 79 overall pick in the third round, Atlanta has selected receiver Zachariah Branch out of Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>Branch spent his first two collegiate seasons at USC before transferring to Georgia in 2025. He excelled as a returner as a freshman in 2023, taking a punt 75 yards for a touchdown and a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, he was a second-team All-SEC honoree after leading the conference in receptions. He finished the year with 81 catches for 811 yards with six TDs.<\/p>\n<p>He will now join a group of offensive players that includes Bijan Robinson, Drake London, and Kyle Pitts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons are keeping an explosive player in the Peach State. With the No. 79 overall pick in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-604885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}