Who Would You Keep?: Linebacker

by Dave Cariello on Jun 17, 2008 3:00 PM CDT

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Yup, you guessed it. Its time to give you guys another chance to play coach and explain who you think will make this years squad. This week its the linebackers. To me, it seems the first 4 are obvious but the last one or two may be tricky and up for debate. Any surprises or shockers? Last year most of us probably thought Brian Simmons would easily win a spot. Didn't happen. This one should be interesting.

Here is the official ballot:

Marvin Mitchell
Jonathan Vilma
William Kershaw
Mark Simoneau
Troy Evans
Scott Fujita
Jo-Lonn Dunbar
Scott Shanle

I would say you should choose either 5 or 6 players. If you want to go into detail about middle linebacker and outside linebacker, go for it, but I will leave that up to you. Have fun with it!

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Who would I keep?

Shanle, Fujita, and Vilma are given. Other than that everything is up for grabs. Evans and Simoneau may very well be in danger of losing their jobs. I think that Marvin Mitchel has more that a 60% chance of making the team. The other two young linebackers are in comptetition with Evans and Simoneau

by persimmonsaint on Jun 17, 2008 3:39 PM CDT reply actions

i actually agree with this.

by xen-cuts on Jun 17, 2008 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions

Jonathan Vilma
William Kershaw
Troy Evans
Scott Fujita
Jo-Lonn Dunbar
Scott Shanle

by xen-cuts on Jun 17, 2008 4:14 PM CDT reply actions

I got it

I don’t know too much about Evans, Kershaw, or Dunbar, but if it’s close I’d take the guy with better coverage skills. I think that teams are going to start trying to run a lot of short-medium routes next year. I think our d-line will keep most WR’s from having enough time to get REAL deep, and running probably isn’t going to be the best option for the other team either. So I think it will look something like this….

Vilma
Fujita
Shanle
Simoneau
Dunbar
Mitchell

by asaint on Jun 19, 2008 2:01 PM CDT reply actions