Meet the Hybrids: A New Breed of NFL Linebacker

More teams are finding flexibility in their concepts, especially four-down front dominant schemes. Meet the top box linebackers that moonlight as Edges in the NFL.

Over the past five years, one perceived trend in the NFL has been a shift to five-man fronts or a Base defensive structure found in a 3-4, but that isn’t exactly correct. The number of snaps from odd fronts has remained steady over the past three years. The rise in importance of the Edge position on defense has amplified the thinking that more teams are…