ATLANTA -- Rookie cornerback Desmond Trufant has signed a four-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons and was the first player to report for the start of training camp. Atlanta announced the deal Wednesday. Trufants agent, Doug Hendrickson, told The Associated Press that the contract was for $8.16 million with $4.3 million guaranteed. "Desmond is very excited to get started," Hendrickson said. "He made it clear he wanted to be in camp on time. As usual, the Falcons were great to work with, and were glad to get this deal done." Trufant was one of the first players to report to dorms at the teams training facility in Flowery Branch, Ga. Camp officially begins on Thursday with the first practice. Atlanta traded up eight spots in a draft-day deal with St. Louis to select Trufant out of Washington. He is the leading candidate to start at right cornerback but will have to beat out Robert Alford, a second-round pick from Southeastern Louisiana. In six years under general manager Thomas Dimitroff, the Falcons have had only two players not report on time because of a contract dispute. Offensive tackle Sam Baker missed the first practice of camp in 2008. Veteran wideout Roddy White missed the first eight days of 2009 before signing a six-year deal that made him one of the NFLs highest-paid receivers. Trufant was the last of eight draft picks this year to finalize a contract with the Falcons. Quarterback Sean Renfree, a seventh-round selection from Duke, signed Wednesday, too. Trufant has two brothers with NFL experience in the secondary. Marcus Trufant played his first 10 seasons in Seattle before signing with Jacksonville two months ago. Isaiah Trufant, a career reserve, is preparing for his fourth season with the New York Jets. Desmond Trufant is competing with Alford to replace Dunta Robinson, who signed with Kansas City in March after the Falcons released him to clear salary cap room. 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Paul Crary and Ian Babineau originally came up with their concept last fall -- not for a contest, but just because theyre passionate Timberwolves fans who thought the team could benefit from a new look. They created their own website and Twitter feed and generated a bit of buzz among the teams fan community. So they had plenty of time to refine their idea and didnt have to work under the same time constraints as our other entrants.But this concept is too good to ignore. For starters, in an era filled with snarling mascot logos, Crary and Babineau dared to put as much emphasis on timber as on wolves, with really strong results. The repeated use of stacked triangles -- sometimes to create trees, sometimes to create a wolfs face, sometimes to create a snowflake pattern -- is ingeniously simple, and the designs are embedded with additional symbolism, as illustrated in this animation:Its a really clever concept, especially compared to the default wolfs head approach. You can see more on Crary and Babineaus website.Best Golden State-style design: Brian CarlsonThe Warriors have one of the NBAs most interesting uniform designs, and Brian Carlson was clearly drawing upon that for his Timberwolves submission. It may be derivative (and he would have been better off putting the team name on top and the state name on the bottom, instead of the other way around), but it works!Carlsons road design is pretty sharp as well. If a wolf is going to be howling, hes going to be doing it at night, right? So heres a rare case in which a black uniform feels like a logical design choice instead of a lazy cliché.Best NBA-ready logos: Jesse NunezThe NBA has gone bonkers for roundel-based logos in recent years, so Jesse Nunezs proposed logos would fit right in. Some people may like this approach more than others, but you have to admit that these designs feel very much in tune with the leagues current design sensibility, and look very official as a result.Best no-frills design: Matt HarveyStraightforward, traditional designs are often overlooked in uniform competitions, and you could even argue that a rrelatively young franchise like the Timberwolves shouldnt go with a classic-style uniform.dddddddddddd But if they wanted to go that route, they could do a lot worse than to use Matt Harveys design, which feels like a more mature, grown-up distillation of the teams previous looks. His green and black alternate uni concepts are handsome as well, although it might have been nice if he had cut loose with a more adventurous concept for one of them.Best use of W and M: Dom Veurink The letters W and M are essentially inverted versions of each other, and they can also stand for Wolves and Minnesota. So Dom Veurink came up with a nifty stylized W logo for his home jersey and then flipped it upside-down for his road jersey. Not bad! (And while were at it, Sandro Tagliavini devised an MW mark that doubles as a wolfs head.)Honorable mention: Wolves howl at the moon and NBA team logos almost always include a basketball, so Daniel Richardson came up with a logo concept that combines the moon and the ball. Needs a bit of work, but its a good concept. ... Most of the logo concepts we received showed a wolfs head either snarling directly at the viewer or pointing upward, in full howl. Joel Jenson got his logo to stand out from the pack simply by showing the wolfs head in profile, pointing forward. He then included an upward-howl pose for one of his secondary logos -- a smart approach. ... Neon, volt, electricity -- by any name, fluorescent green and yellow tones are all the rage these days. They usually look pretty awful, but Greg Koch managed to harness them to surprisingly good effect in his logo package and his home and road uniforms. The only problem is that the combination of navy and neon feels too Seattle Seahawks-ish. ... As usual, Tom Bierbaum submitted drawings that included great designs for opposing teams. Check out his concepts for the Washington Wizards and Oklahoma City Thunder (who would change their name to the Bolts in Bierbaums alternate universe). ... John Richardsons uniform concepts look like theyd be right at home in the old ABA. ... Tom Kyles black alternate uniform is suitably spooky.Want to see more? You can check out all of the submissions we received here.Paul Lukas will have more team-redesign contests soon. If you liked this column, youll probably like his Uni Watch Blog, plus you can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. 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