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droopy
Littleton, Ebukam, Barron & Longacre (who's coming off an injury)? We need to use our #1 round pick on a LB.
We don't know how good Littleton and Ebukam are. It's only speculation at this point based on a few games.
Barron is controversial but I don't think he's in any real danger.
I agree with the general consensus on Longacre, which basically has him as a decent back-up. But then, last year was his first playing standing up, so who knows.
It is pretty clear they need a very good OLB for this group to be good. The problem with that is, it's rare for rookie rushers to excel. Last year for example of the 35 guys with 8 or more sacks, only 1 was a rookie. A quick look at 2016 and it;s the same -- 1 rookie is on the list of 30 defenders who got 8 or more sacks.
So at this point, without them having added anyone in free agency, it looks like they will have to hobble together an outside pass rush out of a rookie, Ebukam, and Longacre.
That's not even getting into who plays the pass-rushing right DE in 4 DL sets.
The magic 8-ball says, ask again later.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2018 06:59PM by zn.
