After leading the country with 46 sacks in 2017, USC football’s pass rushing prowess fell off a cliff in 2018, notching just 29 to finish fifth in the Pac-12.
Losing Porter Gustin to injury no doubt impacted those figures, as the Trojans struggled to produce pressure, especially from the outside. Even tackle for loss numbers, which didn’t drop from the previous year, were largely generated by interior linemen, inside linebackers and members of the secondary.
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Simply put, USC needs far more production from its outside linebackers in 2019.