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Originally Posted by leroyjenkins
A lot to live up to. List of best DL's by Athlon sports.
3. Ohio State
Anchoring the middle of the line are juniors Cameron Heyward and Dexter Larimore, along with senior Doug Worthington, an Athlon preseason third-team All-Big Ten selection. Incoming freshmen Melvin Fellows and John Simon ranked among the top 100 prospects in the 2009 class by Athlon.
2009 Best Units: Defensive line - AthlonSports.com |
Why doesn't Denlinger even get a mention? Even most of our own posters have dismissed him and only talk about Larimore and Goebel.
Denlinger has shown to be much more of a playmaker (when healthy) than Larimore. Definitely quicker off the ball.
Re: the 3-3-5 discussion earlier......
We will definitely see odd-man fronts - we always have at times. But it will be a nickel personnel package with 2 LBs, dropping Gibson/Williams back, rather than a straight 3-3 where you have to use bigger guys than Gibson or Williams at DE. I don't want to exchange Gibson/Williams for another DB.
I wouldn't want to see us take away our strongest defensive player(s) to employ a 3-3. I would much rather see us use an odd man front with Gibson/Williams as a Leo, and have 2 LBs with Hines as the extra DB.
Spitler might be the odd man out alot of the time this year when we're in nickel or odd-man fronts.