They linebackers are good, everyone else is unproven. Things are not as easy when yu don't have a pass rusher or a big body like Montravious Adams making things easier for yu.
Auburn is just behind FSU as the most overhyped teams in the offseason
Marlon Davidson, Paul James, Jeff Holland, very talented end rushers.
Derrick Brown was a 5 star, finally getting burn with Adams gone. Cowart is moved to DT where he probably should've been in the first place, physical beast. Dontavius Russell is an experienced vet that held the job down for 3 years now aside Adams
The issue with using just stats to gauge our DL is that a lot of the returning guys got pressure, but the big two finished them off. Especially dudes like Davidson and Jeff Holland. Now that they'll be the ones expected to finish those sacks, their numbers will go up
Also our linebackers are like our most promising position perhaps on the entire team. We were great last year with only one real guy with experience. Tre Williams, Deshaun Davis, and rotational Darrell Williams are quality linebackers. We also signed some legit linebackers last class that can get burn need be. We're deep as fukk at linebacker quite frankly.
We lost two pieces out of the front 7, and even tho they were great pieces, that side of the ball has constantly worked on building a rotation of elite guys. At worst, we'll be slightly off from last year's, which was a top 3 or so front 7. At worst