re: Which team will have the best DL this football season?

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Well Marlon Davidson was a WDE apparently and he's playing DT.

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Wat?

Davidson is a starter at DE and where was he ranked as a WDE? On the 247 composite he was the #4 SDE in the class of 2016 LINK

For a guy that weighs 285, he's not half bad at rushing the passer though

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I'm looking back at some Auburn games. Montravius Adams is a ridiculously strong anchor in the run game. You guys are going to miss him a lot

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Yeah we will. It'll hurt this season but (and I know this sounds homerish) I believe Derrick Brown can end up just a little better than Adams. On paper Brown is an Adams clone:

Derrick Brown- 6'5" 315
As a recruit #9 overall, #5 DT, #1 in Georgia

Montravious Adams- 6'4" 310
As a recruit #10 overall, #3 DT, #2 in Georgia

And they have a similar playing style. I think Brown is a little more athletic though.

But the reason I feel Brown will be better is effort. The knock on Adams by NFL scouts (and AU fans) is that he didn't give a ton of effort until his senior year when he was looking to earn some money and raise his draft stock. Scouts said his junior and senior film is night and day effort wise. He took plays off but one scout said he basically took his whole junior year off. This is keeping him from being a sure fire 1st rounder, although his combine has some mocks starting to put him late 1st now.

Brown didn't get tons of playing time because of our depth at DT, but he got a decent amount and he always gave 100% on every play. If he was in the game, you knew it.