It’s not as if there weren’t expectations of him.
When the New Orleans Saints added free agent linebacker Craig Robertson, he was expected to be a core special team member, a solid veteran who understood the importance of the units and previously had done the job admirably. True, he’d started some games at linebacker, but special teams would be where he would make his mark.
Except, Robertson proved to be so much more valuable as a starting linebacker – first, because Dannell Ellerbe was injured and later, because he simply was too good to take off the field.