Everyone keeps talking about Underwood and I'm very interested to watch this defense again, especially in the trenches. It's what toppled the OSU team. If they had an offense with a pulse last year, maybe a qb with a pulse, games against Indiana, Illinois and washington could have had different outcomes. I don't think Texas or Oregon would have ever been in question as they were the better teams.
the defense is going to be phenomenal this year. feel like it is being slept on majorly by national media. it's going to be a top 3-5 defense in the country....again....even with losing Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant. Will Johnson missed the last 7 games of the season last year and the defense got
significantly better towards the end of the season in the last 4-5 games when Wink started adjusting to the college game and dumbed down his defense a little bit and stopped blitzing so much.
defense is still loaded with future NFL draft picks, Rayshaun Benny is a STUD DT and they added a pair of talented veteran DT's in the porthole and will have excellent depth there, they got a guy that might wind up being the best nickel in the conference in the porthole in Metcalf, and oh yeah they get Rod Moore back at free safety.
And the coaches/insidery types are all super high on and basically gush/froth at the mouth about LB Cole Sullivan, EDGE Dominic Nichols, Safety Jaden Mangaham, and DT Trey Pierce unprompted. And if even one of those players breaks out in anyway this season the defense will be nuts- if all of them do- forget about it- defense will be ludicrous.
Only potential weakness I see is CB depth. Lot of talented RS/True frosh talent behind the starters Hill & Berry- but not much in the way of proven depth.
