Brad Holmes Makes Telling Comment About LB Malcolm Rodriguez

The Detroit Lions acknowledged shortly linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez might be a participant that was lively on Sundays through the common season. 

His skills on particular groups and his development up the linebackers depth chart have caught the eye of supporters and media members.

Common supervisor Brad Holmes defined to reporters this week that it’s nonetheless early to diagnose how Rodriguez’s recreation will translate to taking part in linebacker through the common season. 

“How shortly is the primary, second, third-down stuff going to translate taking part in linebacker? And Ray (Agnew) talked about simply his processing abilities, being a quarterback in highschool, you recognize what I imply? He’s simply acquired a stage of key and diagnose that has translated,” mentioned Holmes. “However once more, you simply don’t know shortly it’s going to return. However, it’s come, come fast, and — however can’t say sufficient that he’s a rookie. He hadn’t performed an NFL recreation but, so let’s simply see the place it goes.”

For the entrance workplace and training workers, there was a concerted effort to downplay any additional added hype which will have come the younger linebackers route. 

From defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn to linebackers coach Kelvin Sheppard, it has been reiterated that the younger linebacker is inexperienced and has solely appeared in NFL video games which can be chalk stuffed with reserves. 

Now, video games matter and can depend within the standings, so the gifted linebacker can be given each alternative to shine. 

Detroit’s entrance workplace is sticking to their analysis course of and can keep away from making grand proclamations concerning their course of, even when Rodriguez finally ends up being a star participant.

It was telling that Holmes revealed there have been linebackers the workforce may have chosen with higher bodily traits.  

“There’s sure positions which you could type of take a look at and assess that you simply could possibly discover gold within the later rounds, and inside linebackers, it’s a great quantity of them all through the Draft,” mentioned Holmes. “Nevertheless it’s nonetheless acquired to be the fitting man. I imply, there’s inside linebackers that had higher bodily traits than Malcolm Rodriguez within the later rounds. However we determined to go the route that we went. Not saying that you simply’re going to hit like that on a regular basis, however we’ll simply persist with our identical course of.”