For as long as I’ve been a Buffalo Bills fan, the team has had solid linebackers. Whether you’re talking about big-name guys from my younger days like Cornelius Bennett, Darryl Talley, and Shane Conlan, studs on bad teams like London Fletcher and Takeo Spikes, or lesser-known guys like Damien Covington and Keith Newman, the Bills have always been solid at the defense’s middle level.
When the Bills hired head coach Sean McDermott, he came from a team where his defense was “quarterbacked” by one of the league’s best middle linebackers in Luke Kuechly.