Super Bowl-winning quarterback explains why Falcons drafting Michael Penix Jr was 'brilliant'

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Of all the teams inside the top-15 of the NFL Draft order, the Atlanta Falcons were certainly one that not many people were predicting would pick a quarterback.

Well, they shocked just about everybody when they selected Michael Penix Jr. out of Washington with the eighth overall pick.

Of course, the Falcons entered the offseason with a hole at quarterback, but they gave Kirk Cousins a four-year deal with $180 million – $100 million of that is guaranteed, but all in the first two years.

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Atlanta's first-round pick, quarterback Michael Penix Jr., talks to the media at a press conference introducing him at the Falcons training complex.  (Dale Zanine-USA Today Sports)

So, while the Falcons have been criticized for the move, Super Bowl winner Trent Dilfer is on the totally other side.

Penix will, of course, be backing up Cousins for a long while, but Dilfer is seeing a Brett Favre-Aaron Rodgers-Jordan Love plan.

"[Cousins] is going to play as good of football he can play for as long as his body allows him to play. And while he does that, you will not find a better human to help Michael Penix grow as a person, as a player. Every time the Packers did this, every time people said this was stupid… I think it's one of the best models in all of football," Dilfer told OutKick's "Hot Mic" earlier this week.

"The Falcons are looking three, four, five, six, seven years down the line here, they're looking to become Super Bowl contenders for a decade, not just change their franchise now. And because of that, I think it was a really good pick."

Washington Huskies quarterback Michael Penix Jr. throws