Well this years draft is a bad year for LB's, so we Seahawks draftniks need to turn over every stone to find one. Wisconsin athlete Tanner McEvoy is a player to consider. burgers_59 mentioned him in his mock draft and someone else on here brought up McEvoy's name during this past college football season.
Tanner McEvoy is 6-6 231 lbs, he played QB, WR, and FS at Wisconsin. He was a running QB, but was never really a starter as a QB. McEvoy played some WR, but only had 10 career receptions. It was FS where he was most effective. His career stats as a FS are 74 tackles, 3 TFL's, 7 Int's, 10 PBU's, and 1 sack. McEvoy is fast for his size, he looks like a 4.55 40-yard kind of speed and he looks fairly fluid in his movements.
With his size and attributes, I am really intrigued to see what he could do as a OLB for us. He would need to put on about 10 lbs to play LB, but he has the frame to where that should not be a problem. He has the experience of covering WR, so he should be able to cover TE's. I like the fact that he was recently a QB so I would imagine that would give him a bit of an advantage as a defensive player.
The clip below is his highlights of his career at Wisconsin, on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball...
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Tanner McEvoy is 6-6 231 lbs, he played QB, WR, and FS at Wisconsin. He was a running QB, but was never really a starter as a QB. McEvoy played some WR, but only had 10 career receptions. It was FS where he was most effective. His career stats as a FS are 74 tackles, 3 TFL's, 7 Int's, 10 PBU's, and 1 sack. McEvoy is fast for his size, he looks like a 4.55 40-yard kind of speed and he looks fairly fluid in his movements.
With his size and attributes, I am really intrigued to see what he could do as a OLB for us. He would need to put on about 10 lbs to play LB, but he has the frame to where that should not be a problem. He has the experience of covering WR, so he should be able to cover TE's. I like the fact that he was recently a QB so I would imagine that would give him a bit of an advantage as a defensive player.
The clip below is his highlights of his career at Wisconsin, on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball...
[youtube]C4ojKBcmAWQ[/youtube]
[youtube]4G4At6DqMvc[/youtube]