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Is the consensus that Stanford should be pretty good and quite deep at defensive back and ILB, potentially good but green at EDGE, and frighteningly untested/young/thin at the two inside DL spots?  Looking at the roster, the scholarship players identified as the DL group are just Phillips, Franklin, Buckey, Rowell, Moi, and Caughey.  Phillips had 5 tackles (2 solo in his redshirt freshman season last year), Franklin had 4 tackles (1 solo) in his true freshman season last year, and no one else has seen the field in a college game.  I know in the olden days, you wanted to play juniors and seniors on the lines when possible, but it does seem like kids come more ready to play than they did in the past.  Do you all think that guys like Rowell or Moi are likely to be ready in their true freshman year?  Is this the group that the staff is going to play, or are we likely to either see walk-on players or players listed as EDGE get some of the snaps at the inside DL positions?  Sorry if this is a re-hash of prior posts, and thanks for the input.

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Is the consensus that Stanford should be pretty good and quite deep at defensive back and ILB, potentially good but green at EDGE, and frighteningly untested/young/thin at the two inside DL spots?  Looking at the roster, the scholarship players identified as the DL group are just Phillips, Franklin, Buckey, Rowell, Moi, and Caughey.  Phillips had 5 tackles (2 solo in his redshirt freshman season last year), Franklin had 4 tackles (1 solo) in his true freshman season last year, and no one else has seen the field in a college game.  I know in the olden days, you wanted to play juniors and seniors on the lines when possible, but it does seem like kids come more ready to play than they did in the past.  Do you all think that guys like Rowell or Moi are likely to be ready in their true freshman year?  Is this the group that the staff is going to play, or are we likely to either see walk-on players or players listed as EDGE get some of the snaps at the inside DL positions?  Sorry if this is a re-hash of prior posts, and thanks for the input.