Cushing weighs 262!

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Originally Posted by superbowlbound

Back on topic. I think Cushing's going to be fantastic. I've not seen anything from OTA's to make me think anything less. As others have said, he played at 259 at USC and was nothing if not productive. Granted, SLB is not the biggest impact position on the field, but he's definitely an upgrade over Greenwood. That's not even debatable, IMO. While we definitely have some question marks there, it looks like we have a solid if not really good front 7. Our young corners have a lot of potential, and we're 1 really good safety away from a really terrifying defense, provided we allow our D-line to play to their strengths, IE penetrate. A big, sure-tackling SLB definitely should open things up for Bush to be more aggresive with the front 4, especially with demeco already there. We've got 3 pretty impressive athletes competing for WLB, so we've definitely got some depth. This is probably the best linebacking corps we've ever had, to go along with the best D-line we've ever had (assuming we can get some maturation from Amobi, and Connor can do what we ask of him. We know what we're going to get out of Mario.)

Yeah, I agree that a SLB is not the biggest apparent impact position, but it becomes immediately apparent that it is impact when teams are running for big gains, and your SLB is getting washed.