Merling will be a OLB!!!

[phineffect]

If were doing a 3-4. Look at his highlights on youtube, there are a couple vids but he even looks like D. Ware body wise. 3-4 DEs are a lot differant then a 4-3 DE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTMJS5i673A

 

[DefensiveEnd76]

Merling is almost 6'5" and weighed 282 pounds right before the draft. He is a DE and Sparano said so.

 

[CedarPhin]

If were doing a 3-4. Look at his highlights on youtube, there are a couple vids but he even looks like D. Ware body wise. 3-4 DEs are a lot differant then a 4-3 DE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTMJS5i673A

Isn't there another thread exactly like this later on down the board?

 

[GoonBoss]

Merling is almost 6'5" and weighed 282 pounds right before the draft. He is a DE and Sparano said so.

In fairness........Sparano has said alot of things that didn[t turn out to be true :D

 

[Kdawg954]

Merling is almost 6'5" and weighed 282 pounds right before the draft. He is a DE and Sparano said so.

He definitely has the room to add weight on that massive frame of his . . . and his play against the run would seem to make him more favorable on the line.

However . . . if he drops 10 pounds . . . he LITERALLY is Shawn Merriman or Demarcus Ware. He would need to gain about 20 to be a DE for us (Richard Seymour). And he has 4.6 speed . . . that has 3-4 OLB written all over him.

I gotta see more of him . . . I know pass rushing wasn't his speciality in college . . . but maybe it will be in the NFL as a OLB.

I am also having dreams of him and Langford being STUD DE's on this line for a very long time

Just having this argument makes me happy that we drafted a guy this versatile with THIS kind of size.

 

[FinFanatic80]

He's definitely going to be a DE, no questions asked.

 

[Kdawg954]

He's definitely going to be a DE, no questions asked.

Not at 282 . . . hell not even at 290 IMO.