Rookie Camp

[THE PISTONS]

(05-06-2019, 11:50 AM)pally Wrote: In 2017, we lost Whitworth and Peko to free agencies and Cedric Peerman to injury.  The impact the simultaneous loss of these 3 undisputed lockerroom leaders on offense, defense, and special teams has been tremendous and frankly has yet to be replaced.

Since we last made the playoffs, we've lost all of these players. Aside from leadership, most of these guys were quality players that have yet to be replaced by equal players.

-Zeitler, Andre Smith, and Whitworth on the offensive line. They were arguably the best 2 players. Smith has really declined over the past couple years so losing him may have been ok.
-Sanu and Jones at WR. It took until this past season to replace Marvin Jones production with Boyd. We are still searching for that #3 guy like Sanu.
-Peko on the DLine.
-Reggie Nelson at Safety. We also lost Iloka who we waived. I'd say that Bates finally has replaced what we lost in Nelson, but it took a couple years for the team to find Bates and Nelson's loss hurt.
-McCarron at backup QB. We've yet to replace that quality.
-Leon Hall at CB.

-Minter, Hawk, Maualuga, and Lamur at LB. I don't feel like sorting through that mess.