Pro Bowl Tackle Tyson Clabo Expected to be in High Demand

Tyson Clabo has shuffled around from team to team, even venturing over to NFL Europa before he wound up with the Atlanta Falcons and playing in his first Pro Bowl this past season on a team that won 14 games and eventually lost to the NFL Champion Green Bay Packers.

Clabo is from Tennessee, and will turn 30 in October, but he is really just coming into his own as a player. Friday morning, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution took a look at the Falcons in free agency, and discussed Clabo in depth.

“I’m excited (about free agency),” Clabo said via telephone Thursday evening. “It’s something that I felt that I’d earned last year and didn’t get. So the prospect of actually getting there is exciting. But, I don’t really know if I will get there because, hopefully, Atlanta will do what they need to do to keep me. Obviously, I want to be in Atlanta. But the thing about that, only time will tell.”

The AJC also went on to say that the teams that are expected to bid for Clabo are the Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, and Chicago Bears, but that Chicago was just a maybe because they drafted Wisconsin’s Gabe Carimi in the first round.

Atlanta would likely want to keep their Pro Bowl tackle, but the article suggests that since the Falcons have hit a bit of a stalemate in re-signing their own players, and they suggest that the Falcons may be running out of money. With the expectation that Clabo could or will join the league’s highest paid right tackles (David Stewart, Titans; Vernon Carey, Dolphins), it’s not out of bounds to think that the Falcons could lose their starting right tackle.