[Dryden]

ESPN's Todd McShay names JL to his 'All-Film' team:

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/insid...odd&id=2684919

Who are the best players in college football? Forget the Heisman. Forget the All-America teams. And forget the politics surrounding both. The only way to truly evaluate a player's impact is to study the film ? and I've done that throughout the 2006 season in order to compile my Second-Annual All-Film Team.

Essentially, if I could draft a college football "dream team," the defense would look like this:

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LB: James Laurinaitis, Ohio State (So.)
Laurinaitis' instincts are remarkable considering his limited experience. After all, he was buried behind A.J. Hawk (Packers), Bobby Carpenter (Cowboys) and Anthony Schlegel (Jets) on the Ohio State depth chart as a freshman in 2005. One year later, the 6-foot-3, 231-pound middle linebacker is wreaking havoc throughout the Big Ten. Laurinaitis has displayed playmaking versatility with 100 tackles, five interceptions and four sacks to date. It also impresses me that Laurinaitis had a career-high 15 tackles at Texas, which was one of Ohio State's two biggest games this season.

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