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(11 hours ago)Luvnit2 Wrote: I don't know, but hope he can challenge Ossai and Murphy for playing time at LDE.
He is definitely a beast of an athlete, let's hope he is like Parsons and a better sack guy in the NFL than he was in college. I do believe he will be solid against the run day 1 and if so not a liability to be on the field. We all love the sacks, but our run defense was very bad the past 2 years after we lost Reader. Even then, it was not great.
I don't think I'd make any comparison to Micah Parsons, because Parsons was mainly a middle linebacker at Penn State and the Cowboys moved him to defensive end, which led to the increase in sacks in the NFL. Furthermore, he didn't do so bad at sacks even in college at middle linebacker. At Penn State, he mainly only started his sophomore year (12 games) and had 5 sacks; he did have one start as a freshman with 1.5 sacks. That was it for Parson's college days; he didn't play his junior year because of a covid opt-out and then went into the draft. Still, playing at middle LB at Penn State, with one-third of the starts Stewart had, Parsons still had more sacks in college than Stewart.
I think Stewart is a rare talent, and, as one commentator on TV said, he should be an 11-sack guy in the NFL. But Parson's didn't need to be coached-up to increase his sacks; he was a rare specimen. Stewart will need to be coached up.
