LB Chris Carter

[CJD]

Never before have I seen such a large fight between so many mediocre players.

Lamur, Carter, Johnson, Porter, DiManche and Flowers are battling for the vaunted #6 LB spot behind Burfict, Maualuga, Rey, Hawk and Dawson.

And Carter is impressing and Flowers is impressing and DiManche is impressing....

Then the season will come and whoever wins that spot won't even play on defense.

I remember the same thing happened when we were on hard knocks. They were playing up DiManche big time and by the end, I was rooting for him to make the team and impact how we play.

Then he gets the call, screams into his pillow.....and then we never see him on the field the entire season.

Now, granted, guys will see the field more if there are injuries.

But LB isn't like DL, where there is a very clear rotation. You only typically need 2 linebackers in 66% of your plays, and 3 in the other 33%.

Unless one of them is a high potential player who would be picked up real quick if we didn't sign him, I'd just take the guy who plays ST the best.

Like...keeping Carter. Do you really think he'd even be active on game days? You can't use him in a pass rush package if he is deactivated every game.

And if we don't keep him, where's he gonna go? I don't know if he's practice squad eligible, but even if he isn't, no one is signing him if we release him. He's been in the league for 5 years now and has 19 career tackles. No one is gonna sign him based on a few training camp articles.

He'll be sitting on the street so, if we do get injuries to the LB group, we can just go over and pick him up and it'll be as if he never left.

These fluff articles can be truly exhausting sometimes.