I think Dean's #1 pretty easily. He's pretty much a can't-miss player, just too fast and way, way too smart. He doesn't have Micah Parsons level physical tools, but there's a 0% chance he will suck.
Lloyd is kind of a weird evaluation, there's just some contradictions in his game I can't wrap my head around. Tested as a 91st percentile athlete, but has average size and speed at a position where speed kills. Willingly takes on lead blockers but kind of lazily throws his arms at RBs. What concerns me most is how BYU absolutely screwed him with stretch-zone run plays... that gave me immediate Nam flashbacks to the 2018 Rams playoff game. I'm just kind of ehhh on Lloyd, and there's like half a dozen dudes in the late first round who I'm all F yes about.
I don't really like the other LBs down the board. Harris will be good, but after him, there's a lot of athleticism and not a lot of instincts. LB is a reactive position... you have to be able to figure out where the offense is going, cause all the speed in the world won't matter if you run to the wrong gap. Call it the Jaylon Theorem.
Damone Clark was my freakin dude... high IQ All-SEC tackle machine with 90+ percentile athleticism. But he just had a neck fusion, and we've seen with Vander Esch how well neck injuries at LB can go.
