If there's one thing you can't have enough of in the SEC, it's pass-rushers. This is a league predicated by predatory trench play, and the more you can thwart those massive linemen in order to live in another team's backfield, the better.
That's why it was so important that Derek Mason bring another top-flight pass-rusher to his defense in Vanderbilt's 2017 recruiting class. Now, this wasn't a class that burned up the rankings and was filled with golden stars, but it did accomplish the goal of getting the type of edge player critical to what Mason wants to do on defense.