It made some local headlines, our headlines anyway, when Kevin Colbert seemed to downplay the talent at inside linebacker back at the Combine. Maybe Colbert has had a little change of heart. Speaking about the group Monday, he called it a “good” class of players.
“It’s a good class,” Colbert told the group of reporters Monday afternoon. “The inside linebackers are changing as the college game has changed…they maybe do one thing really well. Maybe they rush the passer better than they cover. Maybe they’re better zone droppers than they are man defenders. Very few of them are really, what you say, four down type players.