Best Husky Linebacker in the Modern Era? (1970-2021)

DerekJohnson

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

Joe Kelly

Man, what a tough choice! $ way tie with Jackson, Kelly and Hoffman ~ pick your poison, these guys were legendary game changing players that won big games with the season on the line.

Jackson and Thompson similar fluid type athletic players while Kelly and Hoffman were just heat seeking white shark animals with the drive killing game changing mentality to dominate and destroy... what great players.

PurpleBaze

Jaime Fields

Yes, I know he fizzled, but...

FireCohen

Kyler Manu

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

FireCohen said:

Kyler Manu

Joey

Dave Hoffmann

Bierria?

RaceBannon

Donald Butler

I mean I favor the James gang guys but Butler was great on bad teams

DerekJohnson

Dave Hoffmann

There wasn't room for Mark Stewart, but it should be noted that in 1982 he had six QB sacks in one game against UCLA

Fishpo31

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was there when I became a Doog…

1to392831weretaken

Mason Foster

Prime Azeem would top this list. Whole body of work, though, definitely not.

Also, BBK was an All-American, led the country in tackles, and was absolutely essential for making the defense work for two straight seasons. I get that he wasn't an "intimidator" or whatever, but has any other Husky linebacker ever had that level of production? And he even did it in a more pass-happy era than a lot of these others.

theknowledge

Mason Foster

In 2019 I often dreamed of Willingham recruited Foster and Butler playing on that defense. Would have beaten Oregon and Utah with those two and won the league again. How after three straight NY6 games a program can trot out Wellington and Manu as LB1 and LB2 is beyond comprehension. Pete allowed the Bob problem to happen and fester and it cost him wins in the end.

chuck

Donald Butler

FO Stalin you left off Marquis Cooper.

I can't pick "best" from the group. Cooper, Butler, and Foster are all special to me for carrying some pretty untalented defenses.

Nobody else ever votes for Butler, so I will. Take him out of Sarks cataclysmic, program changing upset over SC (allowing him to go 5-7 rather than 4-8) and UW loses that game by several scores.

Edit...some other smart guys voted for him before I did so NM what I said.

whlinder

Mason Foster

Was Pharms a LB or DE? Can’t remember…

DerekJohnson

Dave Hoffmann

whlinder said:

Was Pharms a LB or DE? Can’t remember…

OLB

huskyhooligan

Michael Jackson

Nobody from the 84 team? I theorize that defense was on the same level as 91 but with a less impressive offense.

Fishpo31

Michael Jackson

huskyhooligan said:

Nobody from the 84 team? I theorize that defense was on the same level as 91 but with a less impressive offense.

Tim Meamber, perhaps?

dannarc

Lester Townes

They are all solid, Townes is the one I remember that was in on every play.

Ink Aleaga honorable mention

RaceBannon

Donald Butler

huskyhooligan said:

Nobody from the 84 team? I theorize that defense was on the same level as 91 but with a less impressive offense.

Joe Kelley. Great player.

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

Joe Kelly

The 84 team was amazing; I remember the game in dawg stadium where they had so terrorized the AZ QB that after being sacked like 8 times at one point he looked like he was going to have a nervous breakdown he was so rattled

This team then went on to HANDLE Oklahoma offensively…. I was at a party in Malibu with Brian Bosworth and had fun chatting with him about that game… he was saying that they still can’t believe they lost that game,.. he said they had the best offense in the country… I said, you ran into the best defense in the country… Joe Kelly, Ron Holmes, Tim Meamber, Jim Rogers, and Don James

And yah; Kelly was an animal and the smartest linebacker we have had… 11th pick in the first round and 11 seasons in the NFL

picalogestabo

Bo Cornell laughs at this bullshit list

Doogles

Mason Foster

How does bbk not make the voting list?