Tevin Coleman, who is entering the final year of his rookie contract, expects to be more involved in the Atlanta Falcons' game plan in 2018.

"They are just going to use me more ... lining up out wide and stuff," Coleman said. "It's going to be pretty fun."

Coleman had a career-high 156 carries for 628 yards last season. He also caught 27 passes for 299 yards.

He saw around 10 touches per game when both Coleman and Devonta Freeman were healthy.

"Now, we want to make sure we are really featuring him and Devonta in as many ways as we can," Dan Quinn said. "Splitting them outside, leaving them in the backfield, the amount of catches and touches that we can get for those guys, we know how explosive they are."

Julio Jones is skipping voluntary workouts, but that doesn't mean he's at odds with the Atlanta Falcons.

It has been reported that Jones is seeking a reworked contract.

"It's not even about that," Jones said. "Everyone wants a story right now. There's no story to be told. I'm just working on getting myself better. I'm just working on myself right now. That's all that is. There's no bad blood between me and the team or anything like that.

"Everybody on the outside trying to look in and trying to destroy what we built there. I'm not going nowhere. I'll be there. I love the team. I love the organization. I love everybody there. I'm good."

The NFL wants the retractable roof at Atlanta's $1.5 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium open for the next Super Bowl, if weather allows.

Super Bowl LIII is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2019.

"Certainly where we've been in stadia with retractable roofs, our preference is always to open the roof," said Peter O'Reilly, the NFL's senior vice president of events. "We did that in Arizona for Super Bowl XLIX in a model there where they typically don't open the roof for a stadium, but we opened it for the Super Bowl.

"It our mind, [an open roof] creates some great energy in that building. We obviously will be down for a number of Falcons games this fall. And I know the plan is for it to be open, pending weather. So we'll evaluate it and watch that."

Julio Jones is expected to miss the start of the Atlanta Falcons' OTAs on Monday.

Jones was in and out of OTAs last offseason.

Jones is seeking an update to his contract, which is scheduled to pay him $10.5 million in 2018.

Jones' average annual salary ($14.25 million) places him eighth in the league at the position, behind Antonio Brown, Mike Evans, DeAndre Hopkins, Sammy Watkins, Jarvis Landry, A.J. Green and Davante Adams (per Over The Cap).

The Atlanta Falcons have agreed upon a five-year contract extension with Matt Ryan that will pay him $30 million annually.

Ryan will also receive $100 million in guaranteed money.