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Originally Posted by keg in kc
Nobody said linebacker isn't an important position. What people are saying is that in a coverage linebacker is not considered a top-10 selection in terms of draft value. And that's not even an opinion; it's a fact based on who's been drafted where over the last decade. Pass rushing linebackers do get drafted that high, to either play weak-side end on a 4-3 or pass-rushing OLB in a 3-4, although if they're undersized even they fall into the second half of the round.
For Curry to go this high, as a coverage linebacker, he'd pretty much have to be a once-in-a-generation kind of player, the exception to the rule.
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That sums up what I said one day, to take Curry at 3 you'd have to believe he is one of the greatest prospects that ever lived.