I was 8 years old when I saw my first alley-oop. I thought it was the most spectacular thing I’d ever seen. I was already a sports fanatic and I sat, aghast at such a display of sporting prowess. Even then I was prone to noticing the little things in sporting endeavor though. I remember thinking that, yes, the athletic ability of the player hanging in the air near the basket to catch the ball mid-flight, with impeccable timing to their jump, to finish with a dunk, was remarkable. But I remember being more taken with the player passing the ball.

As I was looking through this list and the teams they were a part of, I noticed that since Carl Davis in 2015, we have not selected a defensive lineman that didn’t have some experience being part of a multiple or 3-4 defensive front… the Ravens are not comfortable with projecting the ability to two-gap unless the linemen has proven he can do it at the college level.