Unless an 11th-hour trade materializes, disgruntled Falcons wide receiver Joe Horn will report for training camp today, when all players are required to check in at team headquarters in Flowery Branch. The Falcons open training camp Saturday morning.

"We will do everything that is mandatory," Horn's agent Ralph Vitolo said Thursday morning. "He'll be ready to roll. He's under contract, and unless he's traded, Joe will be there. He'll work hard, be professional and compete for a starting job."

Said coach Mike Smith: "I'm expecting Joe to be there. He's under contract, and we anticipate him to be there. I don't anticipate anybody not being there. I anticipate our full complement of players under contract to be there."

Horn, 36, said earlier this summer at the conclusion of a mini-camp that he would like to be traded because the team appears to be rebuilding with younger players and he doesn't feel that he fits into the short- and long-term plans.

From that point, Horn did not attend any offseason workouts or other team functions — all of which were voluntary. Vitolo was given permission by the team to gauge the interest of potential trade partners, but nothing has developed.

Potential roadblocks to moving Horn are his age and his contract, which is guaranteed for $2.5 million this season and runs through 2010. Horn, who spent most of his career with New Orleans, signed a four-year, $14.5 million contract (before incentives) with the Falcons last summer.

Vitolo said Horn, who counts $3.4 million against the salary cap in 2008, would re-structure his contract to make it more palatable to trade.

Horn started 12 games last season and caught 27 passes for 243 yards and one touchdown. Those are marginal totals for the former Pro Bowler, who was among the game's elite receivers as recently as four years ago, when he caught 94 passes for the Saints.

Second-year player Laurent Robinson has moved ahead of Horn in the starting lineup, joining Roddy White on the first team. Rookie Harry Douglas and veteran Michael Jenkins worked with the next rotation of receivers in offseason drills.

Brian Finneran, Adam Jennings, Eric Weems and Chandler Williams are the other wide receivers on the roster.

Teams typically keep five wide receivers. The bottom two, and sometimes the bottom three, on the depth chart are used mainly on special teams, a role Horn has not played in years.