What a difference a year makes for Pittsburgh Steelers rookie outside linebacker Bud Dupree. A year ago, in college, he was playing for a team that recently converted to a 3-4 defense in which the linebackers were coaches by the defensive line coach. It was only for this upcoming season that the Kentucky coaching staff hired a linebackers coach.
After being selected with the 22nd overall pick of the 2015 NFL Draft by the Steelers, he is now going to a team that is, for the first time in its history, as far as I’m aware, formally specializing the linebackers coaching staff, with a coach for the outside linebackers and another for the inside linebackers.