Jene Bramel
Footballguy
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: compound fracture, week #4 of pre-season: lost for the year. 
John Norton has a similar forcast for Bart Scott....a #55 is better than no ranking at all?Guess you have to pick one guy and go with his perception cause the average is skewed.The most helpful bit of information that's been posted regarding LB's is JB's post under "three down backers". There's more information in that post than the composit LB rankings.
Reasonable projections for these players IMO
aris Lenon: 84-24-1-1-1-5 >> 164Pisa Tinoisamoa: 75-20-2-1-2-7 >> 159Kamerion Wimbley: 49-20-12-5-0-5 >> 159Shaun Phillips: 47-22-10-5-0-6 >> 151Daryl Smith: 72-15-2-0-0-3 >> 132A few observations after this exercise. Lenon is the only one I have listed in the redraft rankings and I'm the only one who has him ranked currently.I've got Lenon too high at 43. I put him higher in that tier after the Lions chose not to address the MLB position in the draft -- they've said absolutely nothing about Johnny Baldwin competing there -- and haven't yet shown any interest Al Wilson or Shelton Quarles. I'm not concerned about Teddy Lehman; he didn't crack the rotation at year's end last season. However, I think the above projection is Lenon's ceiling, especially since there's no guarantee he'll have an every down role. I'll drop him today.I'm obviously projecting Daryl Smith to stay outside for now. He's never been very productive in that role; he finished in the fifties in this scoring system two years ago there but doesn't realistically have much upside unless he plays in the middle.Wimbley has the potential to hit 60 solos, but I've a hard time projecting that to happen when no recent 3-4 OLB ever has. He's just outside my top sixty and obviously a better play in sack heavy scoring systems or deeper leagues if you're a risk tolerant owner.Phillips? Again, my 3-4 OLB bias shows; if you feel comfortable projecting 12 plus sacks, 5 plus FF/FR, and more than 5 PD again this year then he belongs in the mid-40s again. I'm not comfortable projecting that for 2007. He had multiple minor injuries in his first full season of play, the ILB play will be weaker, and there's no guarantee the secondary will be improved. The Chargers faced the sixth most passing attempts in the league in 2006 and, anecdotally, a higher percentage of "pin-the-ears-back" attempts than nearly every other team. I think 2006 may have been Phillips' career season.If Tino stays healthy, he's a much better big play option on the outside than Daryl Smith is. He'll crack the top half of WLBs easily over a full 16 game season. Last year's injuries were significant, though, and I'm waiting to see how well he looks in camp before I recommend him over the others in the huge tier of LB4-5s.ETA: Looks like I had Wimbley 61; he moves into my list with Landon Johnson moving out this AM on the Hartwell news. Moved Lenon to 53, which kills him in the composite list.
