Not exact matches
Brown has too much tightness in his lower half to match routes and make plays on the ball, but his ability to support the run could
lead teams to beef him up and try him
at a hybrid
linebacker role in sub-packages.
The
leading tackler
at linebacker was freshman Troy Dye, by far Oregon's most disruptive defender, with 13 TFLs and 6.5 sacks.
An interception by
Linebacker Jerry Meter
at the Notre Dame 34
led to Leach's 18 - yarder down the middle to Marsh, and it was 20 - 14.
As Tom Talavage, the
lead author of the Purdue study, told PBS's Frontline in a 2011 interview, he estimated that
at least 50 percent of the high impact hits linemen and
linebackers were sustaining were due to poor technique.