There are high expectations for David Onyemata in 2021. The veteran defensive tackle entered the NFL as an athletic project out of Canada, but took well to coaching and developed a passion for the game that’s made him one of pro football’s better interior defensive linemen in recent years. Not according to Touchdown Wire, though.
Our colleagues over at Touchdown Wire put together a list of the NFL’s 11 best defensive tackles, and Onyemata is nowhere to be found. But one of his predecessors is, in Chicago Bears big man Akiem Hicks (who, ironically, landed with the Saints after also playing college football north of the border).