Author:
1niksder
Subject:
OMG switching to inside linebacker
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[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/post/lorenzo-alexander-switching-to-inside-linebacker/2012/04/17/gIQAbInAOT_blog.html]Lorenzo Alexander switching to inside linebacker
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[quote:da44298115]With London Fletcher freshly inked to a new contract and fellow inside linebacker Perry Riley set as the other starter, the Washington Redskins plan to groom Lorenzo Alexander as the primary backup at both positions.
The Redskins last season used Keyaron Fox and Rocky McIntosh (after Riley took McIntosh’s starting job halfway through the year) as backups at the two inside spots. But both had inconsistent 2011 campaigns and are free agents.
Enter Alexander -- the team’s special teams captain and jack-of-all-trades player (he has played seven different positions during his five-year career).
Alexander, who in 2010 started 12 games at outside linebacker, experimented with the inside linebacker position last offseason during player-led workouts and off and on during training camp. He did that to help make himself more versatile after the addition of 2010 first-round pick Ryan Kerrigan, who last season never missed a snap at the outside linebacker position opposite Brian Orakpo.
Now, it appears Alexander showed coaches enough in those practices for them to move him to the inside.[/quote:da44298115]
Special Teams, OL, DL, OLB and now ILB = One Man Gang