Last week, we kicked off the defensive half of this series by taking a good, long look at each of Alabama’s new players on the defensive line. Today, we finish up the front seven with a big group of linebackers.
For the purposes of this article, we will include both Edge players and off-ball linebackers. Saban generally lists his edge rushers as LBs on RollTide.com’s roster in accordance with his heritage as a base 3-4 defense guy, so we’ll keep that distinction as well.
As I mentioned last week, guys like Jordan Renaud and Hunter Osborne are edge/DE players in some defensive schemes, but they are listed as DL on Alabama’s roster and do not seem to be in line to play any linebacker.