Who we keeping at LBer ?

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(01-15-2019, 02:01 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Obviously LBer was one of our very weak spots this past season. For the purposes of this list let's assume we get two starters this off season, one from top of draft and a free agent. Who from this list do we keep ?

Preston Brown
Vontaze Burfict
Jordan Evans  
Malik Jefferson
Hardy Nickerson
Vincent Rey
Nick Vigil
Chris Worley

Brown and Rey are both unrestricted free agents. Burfict just needs to go for the benefit of all. Nickerson is just awful !

To me the keep list is small:

Vigil - I could see him being serviceable paired with two good LBers.
Jefferson - 3rd round pick, is he really that bad that he couldn't move one of these others out ?
Brown - I'm on the bubble about ? If the price was right I guess ?

I'd keep these three.  Brown played through injury until he was finally put on IR, and as pally noted, he got an INT before he was hurt, and got another later on.  To be out there every week on a gimp ankle, I thought he played ok.  Vigil came back from a knee injury too, as someone else noted in another thread, he was leading the NFL in stops before the injury.  You kind of have to keep the sophomore to see if he develops.

I thank Vinnie Rey for his time here, and he really overachieved, but I think the fuel pump has lost its prime.  Just no on Nickerson, and Burfict needs to hang up the spikes.  Evans?  Meh.....