(06-06-2024, 11:54 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: It seems like all of a sudden we have a lot of defensive tackles.  We drafted two, we hired one premium free agent (Armstead), we have Davon Hamilton coming back, there's Roy Robertson-Harris, now the DL coach says Tyler Lacy is squatting 600 pounds.  Plus some others.  That's a lot of defensive tackles.  What are we going to do with all these guys?

It is the most rotated position on the field. You NEED a bunch of them. 

Last year we carried 6 IDL players on our 53. 
(three of them are no longer on our team) 

All this means is that we have one clearly improved starter in Armstead and possibly added upgrades at 2 rotational/depth spots. 

We needed this tremendously. I hope the early round rookie is ready sooner than later and the later round rookie is worthy of developing. Could really help us out. 

Keep in mind that this staff is still talking about Lacy as if he could rotate at either 3T inside, or Big End outside depending on the package/situation. Hopefully he has improved enough to earn more snaps. He was mostly a non-factor last year.

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