Bill Landis

I think it's pretty wide open between four or five guys, if you want to include Sincere Johnson in that mix, right?

And I think they didn't rotate much last year because they were so good.

But if you're bringing that sort of ceiling down just a bit, which I think is probably a fair expectation...

but the floor remains high and there's just like a couple of guys you think you can play.

I think you can rotate a linebacker.

So I think that'd be on the table too.

But yeah, who's, if I like right now, who's going to be will linebacker against Texas or against a ball state next to Peyton Pierce.

I, yeah, I don't know.

There's definitely room for a third linebacker, and I think this sort of flies under the radar, but Peyton Pierce did that and also led the team in special team snaps.

He played over 200 special team snaps.

So if I had to pin down a role for Garrett Stover right now, that might be what I would say is maybe you're the third linebacker, play 150 to 250 snaps on defense, but you're leading the charge on special teams.

You're on every unit.

Yeah.

And you're like the special teams captain, even if that's not something that is sort of like publicly assigned to anybody.

Yeah, and I really do think it's – so Sonny Stiles played 663 and Arvel Reese played 651.

I think I would bet right now that there aren't two linebackers who play 600 snaps next year.

I think Peyton Pierce might, but I don't think another linebacker will play that many.

That between – It'll be sprinkled out a little bit, yeah.

congratulations to matt patrician's contract like i think he's gonna earn his money like he's gonna have some stuff to figure out so definitely yeah it's just it's a he and he said he sort of said this right on thursday he had a lot to figure out last year but there was just a lot of like institutional knowledge about what he had to work with that that he didn't have but the staff had and and was able to give him his feedback as he tried to figure everything out

And now like everyone's trying to figure out everything about everybody because there's 51 new players on the roster.