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Mid-Season Grades: Linebackers

So far, the linebackers have been great in almost every facet of the game. Wille Harvey, Mike Rose, and Marcel Spears have been great as starters, and Jake Hummel and O’Rien Vance have been impressive off the bench. Those five guys are the players who have taken the majority of snaps at linebacker, those same five players have combined for 115 tackles and 17.5 tackles for loss. Both of those stats are impressive, but the latter is what stands out to me. That many tackles for loss shows what great pursuit these guys have, shooting the gaps that the defensive line has opened up.