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(05-10-2021, 04:49 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Are all those 1st round LBs off-ball LBs, or are some of them 3-4 OLBs?

From what I see for off-ball LBs...
2021 - 3 (Parsons, Collins, Davis)
2020 - 3 (Simmons, Brooks, Queen)
2019 - 2 (White, Bush)
2018 - 4 (Smith, Edmunds, LVE, Evans)
2017 - 3 (Reddick, Davis, Foster)

There are a couple other guys who might have been given the label of LB, but they really are just EDGE rushers.
They are not really dropping into coverage hardly at all.

EDIT - And here are the guys from the above list who made the Top 50 LBs in the league last year according to PFF...
Roquan Smith - 17th
Isaiah Simmons - 29th
Rashaan Evans - 38th

So out of all the LBs taken in the 1st round 2017-2020, only 3 ended up in PFF's Top 50 in performance last season. To me, that shows that LB hasn't been worth the investment in the 1st round. Most of the guys in the Top 50 (and especially Top 30) are 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round draft picks.

I think "good linebacker" are a result of having a d line that wipes out the blockers giving the LBs good lanes and angles. 

Have not done the research but I'm guessing that most of the top 50 linebackers come from teams with top 10 to 15 D lines