My case against Jarvis Jones

crosswatt said

To be fair, Pollack only started six games in his career. He is by definition a bust, but is one due to injury. And if we had a defensive end who, as a rookie, started five games, put up four and a half sacks, a forced fumble, and a pass defensed, I think we would be pretty excited about his future.

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a fair point about Pollack. It seems to me that collectively, we're making a pretty good case that despite the OP's "theory" that there are some noteworthy, contributing players that also put up decent sack numbers

the longer this thread goes on, we could probably assemble a pretty decent pass rush

Since 1980, these players are among the top 20 in NCAA career sack totals:

Derrick Thomas
Tedy Bruschi
Bruce Smith
Terrell Suggs
Simeon Rice
Jason Babin

That's not a bad list of pass rushers.

Sacks aren't the only determinant of success. LT's best university year wouldn't put him in the top 20.

Lots of sacks don't mean NFL success. But they don't mean NFL failure, either. There's a few guys on that list above who put up NFL numbers I'd love to see the Saints produce.