To spend a second round pick on a player then ask them to switch positions is just delaying their progress. It is difficult enough to make the leap to the next level without having to relearn a new position. It should really be a stretch goal to play another position. Either that or draft an ILB to play ILB. Feels as though the potential he has is being squandered on making a project. Also whatever was said to him about the intensity in the practices, please remind him on game day he has the green light to amp it up again. The guy obviously has the motor and drive to get after players, just safe it for the opponents not your team mates.
They drafted him as a pass rusher. Trying him out at ILB was because we had an opening there. It's not like they moved him from OLB to DB. Good grief!
you do realize the OLBer we usually draft are DE in college, because in a 3-4 you have to have 260+ OLBer, so to ask a player who is as athletic as KC to play ILBer isn't a tall order, but like most rookies, it's a process that takes time....No one said he wasn't going to be good, but the idea of having play ILBer was because we have a lot of depth with OLBer/pass rushers, and don't have the depth at ILBer, so that is why he was getting a lot of reps there, as that would be the best position for him to get PT.....Good grief.....
Good grief... that is what I said. They tried him out at ILB because there was an opportunity there.