Possible Starting Defense After Draft

[jfra78]

DE Gross-Matos

DT Brown

DT Short

DE Burns

OLB Thompson

MLB Carter

OLB  Whitehead

CB Jackson

CB Elder (need a FA)

Nickel Pride

FS Boston

SS Chinn

[MMA]

Elder won’t even make this team. Man was cut and then brought back. Rhule is going size vs size taking tall DBs in a division with tall receivers that Ron could never figure out

[Untouchable]

Switch Burris and Chinn. Put Chinn at nickel. And currently probably Pride at CB2.

[t96]

Whitehead is starting MLB. Probably will have a base nickel. 

[WarPanthers89]

We are two vet FA CBS away from being decent. I think we all know we won’t be in the playoffs next season but I am extremely impressed with this draft and our ability to replenish a defensive unit that looked like it could be the worst of all time before Thursday. Next year watch out...

[ForJimmy]

Burris can play Nickel and Pride has the size to play outside. Yeah we probably need at least 1 vet CB like Apple and our defense should develop into a solid unit.

[Man Strength]

DE - Gross-Matos

DT - Brown 

DT - Short 

DE - Burns 

MLB - Thompson 

Nickel LB - Chinn 

CB - Jackson 

CB - Pride

Nickel CB - Burris 

S - Boston 

S - Robinson 

[Mr. Scot]

I wouldn't count too much on anybody beyond possibly the first two picks being immediate starters. There'll be some transition time needed.

If we do have more rookie starters than that, then I wouldn't set my expectations too high for them...or our defense as a whole.

[Basbear]

Whats not listed here is the depth, which is a big need too. 6th round draftee is the top backup at DT. Shocking is there is some decent safety depth.

CB is a blackhole, no comment. Herniay needs to sign or trade whatever to get at least 2 NFL CB on this team. 

[Harbingers]

7 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I wouldn't count too much on anybody beyond possibly the first two picks being immediate starters. There'll be some transition time needed.

If we do have more rookie starters than that, then I wouldn't set my expectations too high for them...or our defense as a whole.

You know Rhule is going to throw them all on the field. It’s pretty clear he’s trying to build a unit as if it was a college unit that’s going to be together for 4 years. Aka Seattle during their legion of boom time or w/e it was called. 
 

Let’s be real. Without all these rookies starting we still can’t even field a defense at this point. Much less a good one. The reality is our defense is gonna get torched worse than last year either way.