[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

History doesn't mean much in a snapshot, copycat league, though.

I mean we'd immediately call Reggie White more like Bosa but I think Reggie would almost certainly be a DT in this era. Deacon Jones likely would've been. Hell, Chris Doleman probably would've been. You can really kinda look at John Randle as the 'transition point'. In the mid 90s, Randle moved from end to the interior. And it was less that Randle changed - the game did.

Before that, if you could rush the passer, they put you on the edge because they needed wider bodies for the interior to clog the run. And the quick passing game wasn't nearly as much a thing so edge rushers could get there in time if they did their job. In the modern era, a lot of those edge rushers from the 70s, 80s and even 90s would be moved inside, IMO. On the flipside, take Chris Jones and put him in 1984 and I am almost positive he'd be playing DE.

It's just a different league than its ever been.

Reggie would be whatever he wanted to on the DL, that man would be a HOFer at any position on the DL no matter the alignment