Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
I figured it out!!!!!
Kevin Rutland got 4 sacks playing DB - at Mizzou.
He actually was good as a blitzing NCB but it wasn't for KC. Then we signed him as a UDFA, cut him in pre-season and I suspect I thought the signing was interesting as a "what could he do for us..." sort of exercise.
It was the Todd Haley era -- I was clinging to anything I could find at that point. Rutland getting some sacks as a blitzer in college was enough to put him on my radar.
Man - this is just WAY better than that.
Also weird - today is Kevin Rutland's birthday. That just creeps me out a bit.
You thinking of Javier Arenas? He had 3 sacks in 10 and 1 in 11. He was a decent blitzer but fuckterrible in coverage.
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Originally Posted by Buehler445:
You thinking of Javier Arenas? He had 3 sacks in 10 and 1 in 11. He was a decent blitzer but fuckterrible in coverage.
No, it was definitely Rutland. I was just crossing my wires. I had STs for both Mizzou and KC at the time so I remember him being a damn good blitzer and in my head that year he was a blitz specialist for the tigers was actually for the Chiefs.
And he actually latched on with the Jags after Mizzou (his camp with KC came after his 2 years in Jax) so that makes even more sense because I remembered him going straight from his time as a good DB blitz guy "For the Chiefs" to Jacksonville.
Nope -- went from Mizzou to Jacksonville then never really got run in KC.
Just one of those Barenstein Bears things...
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