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Speedball89
He makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 9 mil and i noticed on several big play runs he was the culprit. I guess they just have no other options.
I suppose it's possible that he's still with them because they have no other options. More specifically, it could be because they decided to trade AO and Quinn, Barwin was a free agent, and they wanted to have some degree of continuity in their LB core.
But the other, more likely, possibility IMO is that Wade thinks that Barron is a good LB doing a good job.
Barron was the culprit on several big plays and he did have a tendency to occasionally get washed out of the play. But it wasn't all bad with him in run support.
PFF graded him with the highest Run Stop Percentage for ILBs at around the halfway point of the season. Here's their blurb:
"1. MARK BARRON, LOS ANGELES RAMS
PFF Grade: 83.7
Run Stop Percentage: 11.5 percent
In his first full season at the 3-4 inside linebacker position, the former safety-turned-linebacker is proving to be an integral part of Wade Phillips’ defense in 2017. Through seven games of the season, Barron has played a total of 165 snaps against the run and has produced 27 tackles and 19 stops. Barron moved to linebacker full-time in 2016, and he has produced 52 total run stops since, the fourth-most among off-ball linebackers in that span."Pro-nfl-week-7-inside-linebacker-spotlightThat, and the high words of praise that Wade had for Barron last year leads me to believe that they like the job Barron is doing.
