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Originally Posted by Saccopoo
Kendricks is a very nice player, but I'm not sure how his size is going to effectively translate to a 34 alignment at the next level.
McKinney has great length and size while still maintaining crazy athleticism.
Both are having terrific seasons, but if I had to choose for this team, I'd go with McKinney.
Personally, I would have rather have had them draft Kyle Van Noy last season specifically for this situation. He was a DJ clone at the college level.
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Eh, there's much debate about the new "era" of 3-4 coverage backers nowadays with the almost compounding additions to the passing attacks in the "new" NFL, the old prototype sizes and metrics are all but gone, giving way to the potential for the league to be overran with smaller, lighter framed guys. Personally I'm not a huge fan of that notion, but its almost a guaranteed "thing" at some point. Kind of like guys talking about bulking Berry up to play linebacker in some of the threads this year. He could do it, but why? He's the best SS in the league when he's healthy, and with DJ there, anything extra beside him is wasted talent at that level. But I find its going to be paramount that we get an intelligent young linebacker in there to replace DJ who can be a surefire coverage guy FIRST, and tackler second. Can McKinney be that guy? I'm not sure. I can't seem to find much for interviews with the guy where they talk about "Football smart" concepts, and that could end up being super important going into this draft if a guy like Kendricks performs well at the combine, because you know he's got the football smarts and IQ to handle being the defensive signal caller, but the question for Kendricks is a little bulk.
I wouldn't rule McKinney out though, I mentioned him in the other thread as one of my three Linebackers that I'd take to shore up the middle, and at the moment I don't know if Denzel is truly "the guy" the transitions best into the NFL for that role, so I left him out of there.