MVP2110 wrote:ReasonablySober wrote:Something interesting happened during the season with LVN.
He started the year playing OLB. First half of the season he played 140 snaps at ROLB. He had 7 snaps as down lineman.
That reversed itself in the second half of the season. He played 15 snaps at ROLB, but played 159 at RE with his hand in the dirt. He played 31 snaps on the line on Sunday, 0 snaps at OLB.
This tracks with what I've thought about LVN from the start. He's a lineman.
I think this is important when you consider the draft. If they can nab a guy to play next to LVN on the edge, I think it'd be very valuable to completing the front seven.
To add on to this, if the Packers consider LVN a linemen as opposed to a OLB, then Dline really isn't a need in the slightest this offseason. They'll bring back Clark, Slaton, Wyatt, Brooks, and Wooden, plus you add LVN to that group and you're at 6 guys who are basically roster locks. I think Saturdays game against San Fran will be telling in how they use him with Enagbare out.
I think Gary's snap count and Preston's slow start also had something to do with LVN playing more edge early in the season, plus at some point I think they realized that they had to concede the point on Wyatt being a JAG despite the draft capital they invested in him. No question LVN has been much better than him already, with 1 less year of experience and more than 3 years younger no less, so they may just be trying to get their best players on the field.
I think LVN, Clark, Brooks, Smith, and Gary will be the primary guys in the front four next season, with Wyatt, Slaton, Cox, Wooden, and eventually (when healthy) Enagbare for depth.
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