Defensive Rookie of the year:
Gotta be Clay if not Jarius Byrd, S from the Bills.
"nickb364" wrote:
I think you gotta throw in other names too like Brian Cushing, James Laurinaitis and Brian Orakpo
The leaders are Byrd (INTs), Cushing (tackles) and Orakpo (sacks)...
Right now I would have to say stat wise Cushing is over Laurinaitis...
Orakpo is basically tied with Matthews... Orakpo has two more sacks and 10 more tackles but Matthews has one forced fumble, 3 recovers and a TD of which Orakpo has none but ether way they are basically tied.
So the four big runner are
Byrd (36 tackler, 18 Pass Defend, 8 INT)
Cushing (88 tackler, 1.5 sacks, 1 safety, 10 Pass Defend 2 INT, 2 Forced Fumbles)
Orakpo (34 tackles, 7.0 sacks)
Matthews (29 tackles, 5 sacks, 1 Forced Fumble, 3 Recovers, 1 TD)
I think
I would have to go with Cushing here... then Byrd and then the Orakpo/Matthews tie...
Also I could see some putting Byrd ahead as it depends how much value you put into his 6 more picks...