Position battle - LB

[Memnon]

We did - we just didn’t get him and apparently he has done very well at Auburn. Elijah Melendez

He had 29tks at Auburn last year.

The board hyped him up as if he was the 2nd coming of Dan Morgan, but in reality, he just almost had 30 combined tackles on a bad Auburn team.

By comparison, Mason Posa had 30 solo tackles alone & 58 combined for a bad Wisconsin team as a True Frosh last year.

Menendez wouldn't have even played last year had he signed with Miami.

 

[Hstokes1447]

Wiley-Smith-Toure will play a lot. Heatherman rotates the LB's a good bit. Last year Wes and Toure played the most, but Smith and Popo played a good bit as well. This year Bonner and Pruitt will be sprinkled in. Look out for Edwards though.

I don’t see this staff every playing true freshman LB any more than they played Wiley last season due to they way they want the position played and High school coaches simply do not coach that way. Pruitt, Bonner and Wiley will be the LBs who rotate with Toure and Smith. I see Wiley also playing that Lightfoot role.

 

[Hstokes1447]

Chase Smith and Mo Toure will be the best starting LB tandem in the ACC and top 5-7 in the nation.

 

[Hstokes1447]

The only question that keeps popping up in my head is, why hasn't some of the youth jumped some of these dudes? We know for sure the staff lets the best play always since they been here, and also LB for some reason is a difficult position to evaluate when you look at the NFL a bunch of under rated players out of HS are becoming dogs at that spot.

Chase and Toure are the best linebackers on the team. The younger guys are more athletic but they are not better at the position of linebacker.

 

[Hstokes1447]

Yall are ******* trippin if you think Toure and Smth aren’t going to get torched in coverage. Sure they have straight line speed. But imo they’re not very good rushing the passer either. Pure downhill Run D players.

We need the young guys to play and develop. Period.

You are going to die on this hill I see lol. I guarantee you Smith and Toure will be the best starting linebackers in the ACC this season.

 

[Hstokes1447]

Can you point to a single time in the playoffs where those two got "torched" in the passing game?
What are you even talking about?
And Toure is a very good blitzer, especially in the A gap.
Our defense was great last year so I must've missed all this torching that Mo and Smith were on the field for. Was Wes Fred Warner or did I miss something.
I'm not saying Mo and Smith are great in the passing game but the overwhelming majority of college LBs aren't.
CJ Allen, Hill, Trotter are consensus top 5 MLB in the draft and that's the first thing you'll hear about them. They're not good in the passing game.
Tell me where and when they got torched?

Toure actually had multiple key pass breakups in the playoffs