(06-28-2024, 08:43 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: PFF has our dline ranked 26th in the league.  That's insane imo if Armstead and Hamilton are healthy.  If all 4 are healthy we have a top 5 group imo.

It's somewhat fair. A lot of it is predicated on last year. We had nobody outside of Walker and Allen in the pass rushing department. It was abysmal, non existent without the two of them. 

Armstead missed five games last year and eight games the previous year. Hamilton, again, never really showed much on the stat sheet during his first three years, looked good in the preseason and then he was absent due to injury. He's an unknown commodity really. 

Then, they drafted Maason Smith, a guy out of LSU recovering from an injury from two years ago. Jefferson also added, but, he's more of a space eater and gap controller than an actual disruptor. Which is fine. We need all the help we can get. 

Not sure about top 5. That's a little too generous. I think Walker and Allen should at least have this group within the 16th range though. With Armstead, Hamilton, Smith and Jefferson all holding up physically and contributing? Maybe a top 10 unit. Maybe. 

Top 5 though? Damn, would love to see it, but, let's learn to crawl a little bit before we walk.

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