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Ranking the linebackers in the 2017 NFL Draft

Edge defenders, defensive lineman and linebacker rankings in the 2017 NFL Draft.

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In the latest edition of the Draft Breakdown podcast, Seth started things off with a rant for you Cardinals fans, so check out the first 10 minutes.

From there, we brought back a couple hot takes before we got into things.

This is a long episode, but we crammed three groups of rankings into one episode.

On the edge we had the same top two:

  1. Myles Garrett
  2. Solomon Thomas

From there, well listen in. We discuss a number of prospects outside of our top five.

We moved to the defensive line next and again we had the same top two, great minds and all:

  1. Malik McDowell
  2. Jonathan Allen

Our next differed and show that different evaluators value different attributes in players.

Finishing up we rank our top linebackers.

Seth hedged his way to Reuben Foster being the top player on film, but has a number of concerns.

I would not rank Foster because we don't have testing numbers and bad shoulders for a player whose calling card is physicality, no thanks.

All that and more on the newest episode.