Jewell Out

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, BlazeCarolina said:

Quick glance says he is good against the run, but a liability in coverage.  2 down back.  Might be the best available at this point, though.

Yeah, if you're shopping for major contributors in July you're screwed. We were already paper thin at LB. This isn't good. We're gonna have to be shopping that waiver wire hard and hope someone surprising hits the garbage pile.

[BlazeCarolina]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, if you're shopping for major contributors in July you're screwed. We were already paper thin at LB. This isn't good. We're gonna have to be shopping that waiver wire hard and hope someone surprising hits the garbage pile.

Agreed.  Let's be optimistic and hope we get lucky.

We should be high on the priority list, but  I couldn't find the current order with a quick search.  Everything was too outdated for me to quote confidently.

[PappyMay]

I dont even know who is out there. Bring Kruger-Hill back for depth. Maybe Eric Kendricks has some left in the tank? Maybe Dan can make a last second trade that pans out like the Mike Jackson one did last year.

[frankw]

I mean at this point the guy needs to prioritize his health and his life if he's been in the concussion protocol for months. Just hang it up and go live. Best of luck to him and his family.

As for the state of the linebacker group in general. Just go young and rebuild. Shaq Thompson was not going to save that unit no matter how much some folks might want to convince themselves otherwise. Gotta let it go and reset.

[jfra78]

Sucks...

[Jmac]

Mighty thin LB room. The weak link on this team. The young guys aren't going to have much time to produce. Basically have to hit the ground running.

 

 

Edited July 22, 2025 by Jmac

[tukafan21]

lol

I’m not laughing at him still having concussion related symptoms, because that’s awful of course.

But I was one of the most vocal anti-Walker people on here leading into the draft.  And while I’d obviously have still gone with T-Mac, had I known this would happen, I’d have been MUCH more on board with taking Walker to be an ILB who gets used as a situational pass rusher as well. 

[NAS]

Bring back Luke Kuechly 

[tukafan21]

Maybe this puts Moehrig and Ransom on the field at the same time more.

A lot of people questioned the pick because both of them are most effective playing closer to the LOS than deep in the secondary, so maybe this makes us use one as a hybrid LB/S at times.

[jfra78]

Best we can do is wait for cuts at this point.  Can't trot Rozeboom out there as a starter

[KillerKat]

Our ILB position is dog poo. You would think that would be a strength with Morgan at GM.

[Butterflyj30]

I see that he has been suffering from concussions it may be for the best

[Panthercougar68]

Fingers crossed those Nakobe Dean being available for trade rumblings will start again.

Edited July 22, 2025 by Panthercougar68

[frankw]

5 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

Our ILB position is dog poo. You would think that would be a strength with Morgan at GM.

You would. But this regime has bent over backwards to surround our #1 pick with top end talent after early on bloviating about not needing to invest so much around him because he's that good. So there's only so much to go around. Especially when we are 4th in OL spending.