Are Jenkins, Harris, and Stansbury that much better than their backups?

They were last year

Jacobs has been a pretty good lock at CB so far.

Anyone else notice that once Darion Claiborne came in the game, the first thing he did was blow up a play in the backfield on 3rd down?

The next thing he did was tip a pass which turned into a Nate Askew Pick 6.

Kid needs to be on the field.

Jenkins is, right now, twice as good as any other LB on the roster.

Harris is kinda soft but has the best pure man cover skills.

Stansbury is a great run defender and allows us to not play a freshman at one of the end spots regularly.

You already saw what a difference Ennis made. Those gut runs against Rice weren't there this week. All SHSU big plays were outside runs and broken coverages.

based on some of the shite posted both here and on the rant, I'm going to go way out on a limb and say that our defense absolutely stuns people this week. And I'm certain everyone will say that Bama's offense laid an egg afterwards and give us no credit. frick it. Who cares? Just score more than them and anyone can say whatever they want.

Yea Claiborne had like three big plays in a row, capped off by the tipped pass.
After rewatching the game, Daeshon Hall and Golden need to play more. Hall single handed stopped a drive on consecutive plays. I think he plays more, probably because we will run a good amount of 4 man front. Golden played well in the beginning, blowing up a play. Not sure why he didn't get more action.

Im not as impressed with Walker. He has the size but he gets vertical and has zero leverage.

With Ennis, Obioha, Zo Williams, Hall, Golden, and Stansbury, I feel a lot better about the line. That's a quality group of guys, and there is still depth behind them.