Most of us always talk about Perryman and McKinney but you dont hear much about Kendricks on these boards.  A lot of us live in the SE so we see alot of Miami games and Miss St games but dont catch many UCLA games.  The ones that have seen a few of his games and have been watching him the last few years what is your opinion on him? 

 

He won the Dick Butkus award this year (the award given to the best LB in college) and the list of players that have won it almost all of them the last 10 yrs have produced and have been the top LB's in the NFL.  Outside of Aaron Curry who was considered the safest pick in the draft the list has some studs at the next level.

 

Here is the last Dick Butkus award winners the last 15 yrs.

 


2014

Eric Kendricks

UCLA

96 Solo, 40 Ast, 2.0 Sk, 3 Int

2013

C.J. Mosley*

Alabama

62 Solo, 46 Ast, 0.0 Sk

2012

Manti Te'o*

Notre Dame

55 Solo, 58 Ast, 1.5 Sk, 7 Int

2011

Luke Kuechly

Boston College

102 Solo, 89 Ast, 0.0 Sk, 3 Int

2010

Von Miller*

Texas A&M

38 Solo, 30 Ast, 10.5 Sk, 1 Int

2009

Rolando McClain*

Alabama

53 Solo, 52 Ast, 4.0 Sk, 2 Int

2008

Aaron Curry*

Wake Forest

66 Solo, 39 Ast, 2.5 Sk, 1 Int

2007

James Laurinaitis*

Ohio State

51 Solo, 70 Ast, 5.0 Sk, 2 Int

2006

Patrick Willis

Mississippi

87 Solo, 50 Ast, 3.0 Sk, 0 Int

2005

Paul Posluszny*

Penn State

64 Solo, 52 Ast, 3.0 Sk, 0 Int

2004

Derrick Johnson*

Texas

1 Int, 18 Yds, 0 TD

2003

Teddy Lehman*

Oklahoma

1 Int, 0 Yds, 0 TD

2002

E.J. Henderson*

Maryland

2 Int, 20 Yds, 0 TD

2001

Rocky Calmus*

Oklahoma

1 Int, 33 Yds, 0 TD

2000

Dan Morgan*

Miami (FL)

2 Int, 34 Yds, 0 TD

1999

Lavar Arrington*

Penn State

 


 

 

 

That said I know he looks a bit undersized as a MLB at 6'0"  230.   But Luke Kuechly is 6'3" 238 .    London Fletcher is 5'10"  240   So his frame is a little thicker than Kuechly but dont have the length.  Im sure he will probably put on at least 5-8  lbs by the time he makes it to the pros so I dont really think his size will be a factor, he looks to play bigger than he is and looks to be a leader on defense as he was UCLA's leader on D the last 2 years.  Could this be the future at the MLB position that most of us dont talk about?   Thoughts?  Gonna try to find some game cut ups of his

 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/la-sp...tml#page=1

 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/uclan...story.html

 

 

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