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6-3 240 and an all academic award winner to go with all of his other awards. So he certainly has size, speed and smarts. Yet when I see him play I don't see a player made for our 3-4 who's willing to take on guards at the point of attack. I think he'd be better suited as an MLB in a 4-3 where he can range from side to side in the lanes.
Another reservation I have is that he hasn't shined in the big games. I looked up his production for the LSU game and was shocked to see he had 19 tackles. I've never been less impressed with a total like that. It seemed like he was making those tackles down. He also had 10 solo and 5 assists vs Florida and again it didn't seem like he wanted to take on tackles and was making most of these down field.
Perhaps part of this is on the OSU defensive line.
With the emergence of Mayo and Guyton I think the priority has probably moved off of ILB going into next years draft but I still see plenty draft "experts" picking this as a direction the Patriots could go.
Another reservation I have is that he hasn't shined in the big games. I looked up his production for the LSU game and was shocked to see he had 19 tackles. I've never been less impressed with a total like that. It seemed like he was making those tackles down. He also had 10 solo and 5 assists vs Florida and again it didn't seem like he wanted to take on tackles and was making most of these down field.
Perhaps part of this is on the OSU defensive line.
With the emergence of Mayo and Guyton I think the priority has probably moved off of ILB going into next years draft but I still see plenty draft "experts" picking this as a direction the Patriots could go.