LB Donavin Newsom [Missouri Commit]

[huskerhill]

You came close...

"On the way home me and my coach (Bob Bunton) were narrowing things down, and I got it to the top five," Newsom said.

The final five were Missouri, Iowa, Wake Forest, Tennessee and Nebraska.

A few days later that list was trimmed to one.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-school/football/article_583b5182-91fc-11e0-ada9-0019bb30f31a.html

Looks like a good one. Our class is going to be tiny this year. Not sure how many linebackers they will look for since we already have one high end guy.

I have heard we will take two more linebackers in this years class, to go along with Michael Rose.

Good lord . . . they must be really concerned about LB depth if they are planning for 1/5+ of the class to be LBers.

Well considering that 5 of the 6 scholarship linebackers this fall will be juniors or seniors, it is by far the biggest need along with qb. That's assuming that pirman moves to DE. It would be nice if fischer was granted a medical hardship though. Wouldn't be surprised to see a juco backer picked up for this class as well.

 

[carlfense]

Well considering that 5 of the 6 scholarship linebackers this fall will be juniors or seniors, it is by far the biggest need along with qb. That's assuming that pirman moves to DE. It would be nice if fischer was granted a medical hardship though. Wouldn't be surprised to see a juco backer picked up for this class as well.

Yikes. I didn't realize depth was that thin. I wonder if Pelini isn't thinking about shifting a Stafford type of player to LB.

 

[dylan]

Well considering that 5 of the 6 scholarship linebackers this fall will be juniors or seniors, it is by far the biggest need along with qb. That's assuming that pirman moves to DE. It would be nice if fischer was granted a medical hardship though. Wouldn't be surprised to see a juco backer picked up for this class as well.

Yikes. I didn't realize depth was that thin. I wonder if Pelini isn't thinking about shifting a Stafford type of player to LB.

i think we'll still see a lot of peso, with someone like stafford, cassidy or cooper basically playing the third linebacker.

 

[C N Red]

Well considering that 5 of the 6 scholarship linebackers this fall will be juniors or seniors, it is by far the biggest need along with qb. That's assuming that pirman moves to DE. It would be nice if fischer was granted a medical hardship though. Wouldn't be surprised to see a juco backer picked up for this class as well.

Yikes. I didn't realize depth was that thin. I wonder if Pelini isn't thinking about shifting a Stafford type of player to LB.

i think we'll still see a lot of peso, with someone like stafford, cassidy or cooper basically playing the third linebacker.

You could be right, but I don't see us playing near as much Peso as we did in the past. Most of the offenses in the B1G aren't spread oriented like Misery, sooners, whorns, cowgirls.