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UM hopes to ‘roll in’ fresh bodies behind one of nation’s top LB units. Will it happen?

Those warm bodies that back up what could be the best starting linebacker corps in America?

Better believe they’d love to get a few snaps in the LSU opener, but with University of Miami’s all-star linebacker cast of Shaq Quarterman, Zach McCloud and Mike Pinckney ahead of you on the depth chart, one learns the true meaning of patience.

“We’ve got a good linebacker crew and I do have upper classmen ahead of me — and they’re pretty good,’’ said sophomore reserve middle linebacker Bradley Jennings Jr., in a whopper of an understatement. “They could leave [after their junior seasons], but I still prepare every day like I could play, because one of them could go down.