With Barr or Mack, you are talking about two tweeners that will not have the DE size to pass-rush in the NFL and will not have the pass-coverage skills of a true NFL linebacker.

 

Their size limits them to OLB in a 3-4 defense, and if their speed numbers are correct, they lack the ideal speed for ILB.

 

IF the Jaguars draft either where are they going to get a 3-4 nose guard? You are talking about re-tooling the entire defense.

 

Tweeners at linebacker are no match for NFL offensive tackles and typically do not have powerful pass-coverage skills beyond floating backwards in soft zone.

 

Nothing wrong with drafting the best pure LB available or drafting the best pure DE available provided they are, indeed, the best player available over-all when we pick. 

 

Dion Jordan? Jarvis Jones? Quentin Coples? Melvin Ingram? Yada yada yada

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