The Atlanta Falcons have four days of Organized Team Activities scheduled for this week. All-Pro wide receiver Julio Jones won't be allowed to participate in any of them.

Jones sat out the opening three days of OTAs last week, and he'll be sidelined for the Falcons' mandatory minicamp June 13-15.

The former Alabama standout had surgery on March 6 to remove a bunion on his left foot. Jones is expected to be ready when the Falcons open training camp late next month.

Although he can't practice right now, Jones still has been at OTAs, even though attendance is voluntary under the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its players association.

"He's another set of eyes for us," Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "He's so smart. He's been around so long, and he's really good at connecting with the younger guys and explaining how to do certain things."

"Coach Julio" goes with the wide receivers, of course, when the team breaks up for position drills.

"He can help in ways that I can't," Ryan said. "He can help those guys at the wide-receiver position that nobody else can. He's been through it. He understands how to be the absolute best at his position. You can see when he talks, they absorb everything that he says."

Jones' leadership ability was one of the reasons that the Falcons traded five draft picks to the Cleveland Browns to move up 20 spots in the 2011 NFL Draft to pick the former Foley High School three-sport star with the sixth selection.

That wasn't the main reason, though, as Atlanta general manager Thomas Dimitroff explained during a recent appearance on NBC Sports Radio's "Pro Football Talk."

"We were in a spot where we felt we had a budding quarterback (in Ryan), we had a tight end at that time in Tony Gonzalez and we started to grow as an offense," Dimitroff said. "And we had (former UAB star and wide receiver) Roddy White, of course. But we were lacking in a really explosive player that was going to have defenses on their heels. My feeling was: I want to somehow, with a player acquisition, turn teams upside down with their preparation and really cause a distraction, not only on the field on Sunday but through the whole week, of wondering how they were going to deal with a guy like Julio Jones.

"I don't know if I've been public about this, and this wasn't the only player, but I remember pulling my hair out when we'd play guys like DeSean Jackson, who would just run roughshod with his speed and his athleticism. And I remember thinking, 'We need our version of that.' We need our version, whether Julio Jones catches 14 balls or four balls, we need that. We need teams to be game planning for a person because it takes away their focus on other elements of the game.

"That's basically the genesis of the decision. There were a lot of other things that went into it, of course, given the type of person Julio is, the type of leader he is, the type of focus and work ethic he has. But that was the main point: Let's get someone who's going to be wildly explosive and is just going to turn defenses upside down potentially."

Dimitroff said his "honest relationship" with Alabama coach Nick Saban and Jones' "diva-less" personality convinced him that the wide receiver was worth the risk.

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Since joining the Falcons, Jones has been invited to four Pro Bowls and made the All-Pro team the past two years. He's led the NFC in receiving yards the past three seasons, and his career average of 96.3 receiving yards per game is the best in NFL history.

In six seasons with Jones, the Falcons have a 44-35 record in regular-season games in which he's played. They've been to the NFC championship game twice and the Super Bowl once.

@juliojones_11 was our highest graded WR in the NFL in 2016. Here are his most devastating routes pic.twitter.com/gTsKogEWrg — Pro Football Focus (@PFF) June 2, 2017

How did the Browns fare with their five draft picks? Cleveland has 24-72 record over the past six seasons and hasn't been to the playoffs.

The Browns got five picks from the Falcons -- No. 26, No. 59 and No. 124 in 2011 and No. 22 and No. 118 in 2012.

Cleveland used the Falcons' first-round pick in 2011 as part of a package sent to the Kansas City Chiefs to move up five spots in the first round. With the No. 21 pick in 2011, Cleveland picked Baylor defensive tackle Phil Taylor. Taylor started in 2011 and 2013, but was injured in 2012 and 2014 and has been out of the NFL the past two seasons.

With the 2011 second-round pick obtained in the trade, the Browns selected North Carolina wide receiver Greg Little. Little caught 155 passes for 1,821 yards and eight touchdowns in three seasons before being released. He caught six passes for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2014, his last year in the NFL.

With the 2011 fourth-round pick from the Falcons, Cleveland drafted Stanford fullback Owen Marecic. Marecic spent two seasons in the NFL.

With the 2012 first-round pick, the Browns selected Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden. Weeden started 15 games as a rookie. The next year, he started five -- all losses. Weeden has since been a backup with the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans, playing in 11 games.

The Browns used the final draft choice from the Falcons -- the 2012 fourth-rounder -- as part of a trade with the Minnesota Vikings that allowed Cleveland to move from No. 4 to No. 3 in 2012's first round. With the third pick, the Browns took Alabama running back Trent Richardson.

Cleveland sent Richardson to Indianapolis two games into his second season for the Colts' first-round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. The Browns used that pick, which turned out to be No. 26, in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles to move up four spots to select Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, who started eight games in two seasons and is no longer in the NFL.