Time is a flat circle, dear readers.
And, if you don’t believe in reincarnation, I submit to you a counterexample. The strange case of Kentrell Brothers and Michael Scherer. And Terez Hall and Cale Garrett.
Back in 2014, Brothers was a junior weakside linebacker and Scherer was a sophomore middle linebacker. They combined for 172.5 total tackles by Bill Connelly standards, 234 by the stat book standard (Brothers also had two on special teams against Alabama...but we’re not counting them). That set them up for a 2015 season in which Brothers went mental and the two of them combined for 182.