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Carl Lawson: What would you consider a "bad" year for him?
Posted on 7/1/15 at 9:47 am
Posted on 7/1/15 at 9:47 am
I, and many others, have expectations of Carl Lawson being 1st team All SEC, potential All American and generally playing like Dee Ford upgraded for run stuffing.
Let's pump the brakes for a second and investigate how reasonable these expectations are and try to come up with realistic numbers/expectations for Lawson
Previous FR Game Experience
Acknowledging that we had entrenched starters at DE and Carl Lawson may have played injured, Lawson's stats weren't jawdropping
Lawson 2013- 7.5 TFL, 4 Sacks (7TFL 4Sacks came in only 4/13 games)
Let's compare that to other notable FR DEs in recent years
2014- Myles Garrett 14 TFL 12 Sacks
2014- Derek Barnett 20.5 TFL 10 Sacks
2013- Nkemdiche 8 TFL 2 Sacks
2013- Chris Jones 7 TFL 3 Sacks
2012 Dante Fowler 8 TFL 2 Sacks
2011 Clowney 12 TFL 8 Sacks
Lawson is about middle of the pack and clearly had a good freshman season but cleary did not have an eye opening FR season like some others. He did not clearly dominate while out there
So how should we project Lawson going forward?
I just find it weird that we are projecting Lawson as a top 3-5 DE in the country easy considering his limited play time + coming off an injury.
My predictions
Posibarner- 17.5 TFL, 10 Sacks
Negabarner - 23 TFL, 14 Sacks
For real though, if we got 14+ TFL and 8+ Sacks out of Lawson I will be very very pleased assuming we pick up sacks from other 3 DL positions
Let's pump the brakes for a second and investigate how reasonable these expectations are and try to come up with realistic numbers/expectations for Lawson
Previous FR Game Experience
Acknowledging that we had entrenched starters at DE and Carl Lawson may have played injured, Lawson's stats weren't jawdropping
Lawson 2013- 7.5 TFL, 4 Sacks (7TFL 4Sacks came in only 4/13 games)
Let's compare that to other notable FR DEs in recent years
2014- Myles Garrett 14 TFL 12 Sacks
2014- Derek Barnett 20.5 TFL 10 Sacks
2013- Nkemdiche 8 TFL 2 Sacks
2013- Chris Jones 7 TFL 3 Sacks
2012 Dante Fowler 8 TFL 2 Sacks
2011 Clowney 12 TFL 8 Sacks
Lawson is about middle of the pack and clearly had a good freshman season but cleary did not have an eye opening FR season like some others. He did not clearly dominate while out there
So how should we project Lawson going forward?
I just find it weird that we are projecting Lawson as a top 3-5 DE in the country easy considering his limited play time + coming off an injury.
My predictions
Posibarner- 17.5 TFL, 10 Sacks
Negabarner - 23 TFL, 14 Sacks
For real though, if we got 14+ TFL and 8+ Sacks out of Lawson I will be very very pleased assuming we pick up sacks from other 3 DL positions
Posted on 7/1/15 at 11:23 am to GenesChin
Getting hurt in the first half of the season and missing the rest of the year.
Posted on 7/1/15 at 11:34 am to Rig
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Getting hurt in the first half of the season and missing the rest of the year.
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