My ratings for the 53 man roster:
Defense:
DE: A+ starters, A+ depth
DT: B starters, B depth
LB: A- starters, D depth (Raises to C+ if Sean Lee is healthy)
CB: B- starters, A depth (I'm pretty high on Diggs, Worley, and Awuzie)
S: D starters, D depth
Offense:
QB: B+ starter, A+ depth
RB: A+ starter, B depth
TE: C+ starter, C- depth
WR: A+ starters, D depth
OT: A starters, F depth
OG: B+ starters, C+ depth
OC: D starter, D depth
Weakest starters:
1. Safety
2. Offensive Center
3. Tight End
Least depth
1. Offensive Tackle
2. Safety
3. Wide Receiver
4. Offensive Center
* Linebacker sits at no.2 for least depth until Sean Lee is healthy.
Part of the depth at TE is that the receiving TE on this roster is the 5th option to touch the ball.
- Bell is a known quantity as a blocking TE playing almost 50% of the playoff snaps for the Super Bowl champions.
Tony Pollard adds depth to WR. He could play slot WR if needed.
- With the top 3 all being options at outside WR it's much better depth than when one of the top 2 WRs is a slot WR only (most years with Beasley).
Erving has significant experience starting at OT in the NFL and Knight held up OK in his 1 start last season.
- It's not exactly the year of Chaz Green and Byron Bell as the backup OTs.
At RB it appears Pollard has starter level ability. It's hard to get better depth than that.
Connor Williams was playing really well last season until he went to IR.
- The LG would need to be and F for the starting OGs to average out to B+ considering that Zack Martin is A++++.
I would rate Looney's 2018 performance as a C or C+. He should be slightly better now.
- They have more OL that have played OC than most years or most teams.
- Looney, Biadasz, McGovern, Erving. They also had CW practice at OC with apparently good results.
This scheme will only use 2 traditional LBs. Even the Marinelli scheme only used the SLB for less than 30% of the snaps.
- LVE, Jaylon
- Joe Thomas, March
- Gifford, Lee by game 4.
Agree that CB is around B or B- until proven otherwise for the starters (top 3) but depth is very good.
- The potential is there to be an A for the starters.
Safety is about a C until proven otherwise.
- Thompson started a full season in 2017 and this scheme will hide is weaknesses better than playing single-high FS for the Giants or SS in last year's Cowboys scheme.
- Worley played both Safety and CB last season and looked OK. His best spot might be Safety, especially in the Cowboys new scheme.
- Carr will need some practice time in this scheme, but he would be a good fit at Safety in this scheme where the Safeties are more CB/Safety tweeners than in some other schemes.
I have DT as the top question mark.
- Trysten Hill as the starting 3tech rotating with Crawford who is returning from injury.
- Poe and Woods look good at 1tech if healthy, but neither have stayed healthy for long.
OT should be OK if Tyron can stay healthy until La'el is healthy.
If Tyron misses any snaps while La'ell is out, then there are going to be problems.