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Once the bedrock of a dominant defense, the linebacker corps fell on hard times last season, playing a key factor in the franchise’s worst-ever defensive showing.
The new coaching staff is installing a new scheme, intended to stack the line of scrimmage with eight men, with outside linebackers taking on new looks.
NaVorro Bowman is trying to come back from his second career-threatening leg injury since January 2014. On track in rehab, Bowman is ecstatic to adapt to a new style in which he’s responsible for one gap instead of two for the first time in his career.