07. State of the Colts – Defensive Line

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Originally Posted by FatDT

We really need Anderson to get healthy and get back to playing well. If he and Langford can both just get back to 2015-level play, our DL will be fine. Not great, but good enough. We need so much help at OLB and ILB, we can't spend many picks on the DL. The help will have to come from FA and from within.

Agreed.

There are not many good OLB that will hit free agency this year, I believe. I don't think there is going to be any help to the defense there.

There are a fair amount of MLB/ILB that might hit the open market and we might be able to sign one to play alongside either a rookie draft pick or a combo of Jackson/Morrison.

However, there are a fair amount of D-Line guys that are going to hit the market and a pretty fair number of Safeties and CBs.

Even though our biggest need is LBs, I think that the free agency class will shape up to be more beneficial to D-line and Secondary than LBs. We will probably have to devote our draft class heavily to the LB corps to get better there.

Cheers,