Takkarist McKinley: These @AtlantaFalcons turned down a 2nd round draft pick when I requested to get traded last year. The same @AtlantaFalcons turned down a 5th and 6th round draft pick from multiple teams when I requested to get traded this year. I only have 17.5 career sacks. [Three clown emojis].”
The Atlanta Falcons waived formed first round pick Takk McKinley just days after he mocked the organization on Twitter, as the fourth-year player out of UCLA had a viral meltdown last week.
McKinley, who was the 26th overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, bizarrely tweeted revelations that the Falcons rejected a second pick for his services last year at the Trade Deadline, and then once again rejected a 5th and 6th round pick for him at this Trade Deadline, which was Tuesday, November 3rd.
McKinley then seemingly made fun of himself saying that the team rejected multiple lucrative trade offers for a player with only 17.5 career sacks in four years, and then dropped three clown emojis at the end of his Tweet, appearing to troll his own team for botching the finalization of a trade that could have netted them as high as a second round pick.
After his initial tweet starting making the rounds on Twitter, McKinley then re-quoted a Tweet from a local AJC Sports Falcons reporter that refuted the claims that the Falcons had rejected a second round pick for him in 2019. McKinley tweeted ‘False News. Call Thomas Dimitroff for the facts sir.'
Dimitroff was the Falcons GM from 2008-2020 before being fired alongside head coach Dan Quinn three weeks ago on October 11th.
On November 2nd, a day before the 2020 Deadline, McKinley used Twitter to break his own news that the Falcons were not trading him.
As uncanny as that was, he hadn't made a Tweet since April 29th, 2020, which just so happened to be a tweet acknowledging that the team had declined his fifth year option, with McKinley using prayer emojis appearing to be relieved he was not coming back in 2021.
The option would have earned McKinley $10.5 million.
The defensive end has just 17.5 career sacks in 49 games as a pro, and had just one sack in four games this season.
McKinley is perhaps best known for his antics during the 2017 NFL Draft, when he brought a framed picture of his last grandma onto stage with him with Roger Goodell, and then used the F-word on Live TV during his interview following the pick.