Over two weeks, Acme Packing Company takes a look at each position group on the Green Bay Packers and provides grades and insight on how they performed in the 2020 season. Today, we examine the inside linebackers.
Among the analytics set, inside linebackers are considered something along the line of “running backs of the defense.” They don’t require the speed/power combo of their outside cousins, you don’t need as many of them as you do corners, and given how often modern defenses play nickel/dime defense, they’re sometimes not on the field at all.