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Uche was used as a third down and passing down rusher who feasted on weaker competition like Northwestern.
He only started as a redshirt junior—and not every game. His production was decent.
However, for Mike Reiss on his Twitter account to consider him as a possible next Teddy Bruschi is not apt.
Bruschi had record-setting production in college as an undersized NT at Arizona for defensive coordinator Jim Young and his football IQ is off the charts.
Uche definitely has some of the physical tools, which is why Bill thinks they can expand his repertoire. But he’s too short. He’ll stand three inches shorter than last year’s second-round DB.
And he also lacks the Bruschi football IQ, which is why he didn’t see the field much, even as a redshirt junior. Bruschi never left the field in college except when the offense lined up.
We play Tampa-2? Don’t tell Hightower.
You can’t even make that comparison. Bruschi was a DE not a NT I’m college, and ended up a MLB/ILB. The sack production in college had doing at all to do with why he succeeded in the NFL. Bruschi perfectly fit the old scheme asa 2 gap ILB/MLB.Uche was used as a third down and passing down rusher who feasted on weaker competition like Northwestern.
He only started as a redshirt junior—and not every game. His production was decent.
However, for Mike Reiss on his Twitter account to consider him as a possible next Teddy Bruschi is not apt.
Bruschi had record-setting production in college as an undersized NT at Arizona for defensive coordinator Jim Young and his football IQ is off the charts.
Uche definitely has some of the physical tools, which is why Bill thinks they can expand his repertoire. But he’s too short. He’ll stand three inches shorter than last year’s second-round DB.
And he also lacks the Bruschi football IQ, which is why he didn’t see the field much, even as a redshirt junior. Bruschi never left the field in college except when the offense lined up.
Kvn and Collins roles will be filled (and altered) by a combination of Bentley, winovich, uche, Copeland and others.This guy is gonna be an off-the-ball player here, I feel pretty confident in that.
He's basically Collins in a lot of ways. Extremely athletically gifted for his size, phenomenal closing speed and sideline-to-sideline pursuit. Fluid hips, good feet, can play deep middle-of-field in a tampa-2, looks pretty good covering TEs in man converage.
As an edge rusher he's fine, but basically a 2-trick pony: speed around the edge, or a heavy bull-rush. He uses his hands well but he's not technically developed as a rusher.
His talents will be so, so much better utilized as an off-the-ball LB who does a lot of spying/robber hybrid and blitzing. Again, to my eye, he's basically a Collins clone but hopefully he's a bit less prone to freelancing.
You can’t even make that comparison. Bruschi was a DE not a NT I’m college, and ended up a MLB/ILB. The sack production in college had doing at all to do with why he succeeded in the NFL. Bruschi perfectly fit the old scheme asa 2 gap ILB/MLB.
Uche fits the current scheme perfectly because of his versatility. The current scheme is 2 DTs 5 dbs and a versatile mix of 4 de/olb/edge players. As we saw while having the best defense in the nfl last year, having players who can play multiple roles and assignments in that system is what makes it unique and effective.
Uche could be a 43 DE a 34 OLB or an
Off the line LB in any scheme.
Will be used similarly to KVN.
You can’t even make that comparison. Bruschi was a DE not a NT I’m college, and ended up a MLB/ILB. The sack production in college had doing at all to do with why he succeeded in the NFL. Bruschi perfectly fit the old scheme asa 2 gap ILB/MLB.
Uche fits the current scheme perfectly because of his versatility. The current scheme is 2 DTs 5 dbs and a versatile mix of 4 de/olb/edge players. As we saw while having the best defense in the nfl last year, having players who can play multiple roles and assignments in that system is what makes it unique and effective.
Uche could be a 43 DE a 34 OLB or an
Off the line LB in any scheme.
Will be used similarly to KVN.