Lve struggles with durability, maybe you limit his snaps to keep him healthy. He is still on his rookie deal and isn't making big money. Could always shift Neal to SS too. Injuries always happen to this positional group. Much rather sign Wright, then bring back Lee, the difference shouldn't be significant.
if we have to make plans to limit or spot LVE's snaps -that's supposed to be a very key our core player for our defense - to have a chance at preserving his durability, i'm not looking to
pick up his option or re-sign him to a lucrative long term deal. Core cornerstone players need to be on the field.
Especially considering that he is a young, first round draft pick for us, ..not an aging, physically declining Sean Lee.
- In fact if limiting him more is the case, then I'd have to strongly consider moving on from him altogether, and investing in another young, core player who can be trusted and reliable to be
on the field full time basis.
- I agree with having KJ Wright vs Sean Lee. But only because i'm assuming Wright can still run and move, and he's not had a serious injury in recent years, though if he's that invaluable,
and can be had for a 6-7 mill range, then why would the Hawks allow him to move on in free agency ?
- Do they already have immediate plans for one of their young recent draftees already in invested in the Wright role ?
- Also Wright is no spring young chicken and a long term invest as he's gonna be 32 yrs this coming summer.
He's stop gap at this stage and age of his career. and this seems like maybe a short 2 year now window at the least.
- only Anthony Hitchen and Damien Wilson aside, we've had a trending history of injury related LBs down recent road- Bruce Carter, Justin Durant, Lee, LVE, Jaylon (pre-draft) Joe Thomas
even egg-fragile unknowns like Luke Gifford; we always tend to draw those kind of backers. It's astounding.
But for all his liability flaws, at least Swipe has been very durable in the NFL since his red-shirt rookie year in 2016. I dont believe he hasn't missed a game since 2016