Football

The Atlanta Falcons’ 10th-round draft choice, wide receiver Walter Sutton, from Southwest State (Minn.), is a convicted crack dealer and the Falcons say they knew it.

Last September, Sutton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Ft. Myers to two counts of conspiracy to possess and distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine between 1986 and 1988, federal court records show.

U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich sentenced him to nine years in prison, but she allowed him to return to college to get his degree before reporting to prison on Jan. 28, 1992.