During the Gophers football team’s open practices in preseason, it was sometimes hard to find defensive line coach Winston DeLattiboudere among his pupils. While DeLattiboudere played 51 games for the U from 2016-19, the current Gophers D-line make their new position coach look small. DeLattiboudere stands 6-foot-2 and played defensive end at roughly 250 pounds, […]
Previously: Quarterback, Running Back, Receivers, Offensive Line, Defensive Line Five down, two to go on this year's The Enemy, Ranked. We've covered both lines and all the skill position players on offense, which means it's time to hit linebacker before concluding later this week with secondary. For linebackers in this piece, we will mostly be looking at two starters for each team, MIKE and WILL, only including SAM in the table for teams that actually use a SAM consistently, while others may have a player occupying that job quickly shouted out in the write-up. 12. East Carolina WLB MLB SLB Mike Edwards III Treylor Jackson RaRa Dillworth BJ Davis TyQuan King Kingston McKinstry Funny enough, the first team we cover in today's piece is one of the few where I'm listing a SLB in the chart, due to ECU's 3-3-5 defense. Sometimes one of those LBs is an EDGE (which were covered last time), sometimes it's a standard LB, hence the inclusion of a thir