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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OldSchool101" data-source="post: 1002783" data-attributes="member: 10086">Yes.  You could say there are 5 tiers of iLB at any given time across the league. Let’s just call it roughly 50 total. Remember we’re excluding OLB which you’ll often see in a top 20 list.1.  1-10 Elite/Near-Elite  (Wagner-LVE)2. 11-20 Very Good/Good3. 21-30 Average4. 31-40 Serviceable (Emerging)/Needs help5. 41-50 Struggling/Poor levelBlake best fit is squarely into iLB group 2Now we could argue had he been a little more proactive meeting a ball carrier at times, he could’ve quickly flipped to group 1.  But just saying he was not good in general because of one weakness isn’t entirely true.  Or had he been a better pass coverage LB like Wagner? he squeaks into that group 1 behind him. He’s not a group 4-5 guy either.I also think Martinez was left on an island a lot and thus he had workhorse type numbers and he became a product of his environment. He was also healthy in GB and that availability goes a long ways.  GB didn’t want to flirt with matching NY $10mil+ per for a really good Off Ball LB. That was teetering on good OLB $$ (Preston etc)</blockquote>

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