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 The linebacker depth is certainly an area to monitor when camp opens. I’d bet Mayo and Hightower open on PUP, Collins is the question mark as he’s been in and out of OTAs. Not sure what’s going on there.

And then even Fletcher has been out as well. So yeah, we’re really looking at James Morris and Darius Fleming as guys who might be called on to step up. It’s really not out of the question that the opening day linebackers are Fleming (SLB), Collins (MLB), Fletcher (WLB).

The rest are interesting young guys and vet free agents who have mostly been special teamers/fill-ins.

I get into a lot of depth in this area in the Season Preview which will be available in the next week or so.

I know, he came up a lot in the twitter discussion afterwards. Nothing against Big Sey, but I was trying to pick guys who were picked out of nowhere and blossomed. Of course there are plenty of good first rounders that lived up to their hype, and really Wilfork should be in there. But yeah, just a “best players drafted” list would have to be Brady/Seymour/Wilfork/Gronk then a debate between Mankins/McCourty/Hightower/Chandler for that final spot.