Cushing weighs 262!

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Originally Posted by painekiller

My reason for posting this was is Cushing going to be able to cover the pass? Is he going to be a 2 down player? He already is not the best cover LB, will the slower speed due to the higher than average playing weight hurt him. IIRC he did not blow me away with his forty time at the lighter weight. Did our team get dooped by a work out?

And yes I was not in favor of our drafting of Cushing at the time of draft.

This seems like a timely comment from the official team site under "Quotes from OTA's Day 9".


Head coach Gary Kubiak

(on who besides LB DeMeco Ryans he’ll put in on third down situations) “Well, obviously (LB Brian) Cushing has the ability to do that. All we did with him, initially he’s worked with the first group in base and we start him with the second group at nickel just to kind of not throw too much at him too quick, but he’s caught up. No doubt in my mind (LBs) Zac (Diles), Xavier (Adibi) can do it, Kevin (Bentley) can do it. In that situation, on third downs, you want your two best athletes out there being able to cover and possibly do some rushing of the passer, so we’ll see what happens. Right now, we’ll be working with DeMeco and Cushing, and Zac and X (Adibi) are doing it.”