Quote:Exactly.  

 

When Calais or Malik needs a breather, do we have another impact player to replace them?  Nope, so Allen or Thomas would be great in that regard.  

 

I think there is enough depth there for a rotation: 

 

RE - Yannick, Fowler, Skuta

LE - Calais, Malik, Abry, Fowler (pass down)

*DT - Malik, Abry, Day, Calais 

 

*I am listing them all as DTs, as I don't believe we have a true NT and as such I think the team will kind of deviate from what we've run under Gus in that regard.

 

Last season, Cyp led the team in snaps at 1070. Let's assume that 1070 is a "full" season snap at one position, which gives us a total of 4280 snaps for the front four positions. Malik played 717 snaps last season. Calais played 830. If we actually go with a full platoon of 6 or 7 guys (Yannick, Fowler, Malik, Abry, Calais, Day, rookie DE or DT), that gives us 611 snaps each. 

 

We still have Bennett (to rotate at DT), and Woodard to rotate at LE, though both are long shots.

 

We still have 8 draft picks this year. With how this team has loaded in FA, there's really not a lot of "clear" starters coming out of this draft. Plenty of picks to go around to bring in a rotation guy either at end or DT.

 

There's really not a huge need to spend a top 4 pick on that 6th guy in the rotation. Would it be a great luxury for the future? Absolutely. But point is, there's plenty of picks for this team to fill that depth.

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