Dorian Williams

Some of it has been on display, but Leonard has been coy about exactly how much of his hand he has shown.

"Would it benefit from me telling you how much we saw, right? I mean, there's one- there's core elements to what we do that were obviously out in the preseason," Leonard said, "but at the same time, there's a lot more in there." During the preseason, Leonard was not ready to name a starter opposite Trel Bernard at inside linebacker between Dorian Williams and r- rookie Caleb Ilams Or.

Leon- Leonard still says sees upside to each player.

"I think it's still a competition.

Yes.

Dorian Williams is listed ahead of Caleb Elarms-Orr, so that's, uh, something that I'd look at.

It's probably not gonna be super meaningful for we'll see what the snap counts end up, but at least on the depth chart, Dorian Williams is ahead of Elarms-Orr and, uh, we'll see.

I, I'm just gonna be keeping an eye on how long that lasts, much like Ben sort of mentioned with Palmer and Keon, we'll see how long that lasts or if that's a permanent thing.

We already know Dorian and Caleb are going to split reps and, and being in different packages at different times, but, uh, I just am always gonna be keeping an eye on if they do end up listing Elarms-Orr ahead of Dorian Williams at some point this season.

I would expect it by, let's say week 14, uh, Elarms-Orr to, to be the starter and listed ahead of Williams the way I have-

Here's-

You saw the first play, Dion Walker in the Carolina game just came out and absolutely wrecked the play.

Like, who's going to be playing? Maybe not week one.

Week one is Cheryl Bernard as Dorian Williams, okay? But Caleb B.

Larmzor, who I continue to point out, I think you had a higher pre-draft than anybody I know.

He was the second linebacker on your, on your big board coming into the draft, of course, fourth round pick.

And now Shaq Thompson is back who Shaq Thompson played well last year for the Buffalo bills at times a lot better than Bernard, but Bernard was banged up last year.

He wasn't the real troll Bernard last year.

I still have question marks about this position though, because of course you, you know, the health of Bernard and Dorian Williams over the past few years.

And again, you got two other guys in the making, uh, Until proven otherwise, this position's a question mark, although there's a lot of possibilities out there, right?

And then the other half say, well, it's just a matter of time before he alarms or takes his job.

And it's him and Dorian Williams that are out there starting or Shaq Thompson when he gets up to speed because Shaq Thompson last year was straight up better than Terrell Bernard.

And it wasn't close, which makes him for me a great candidate to be a bounce back guy because he He's healthy.

I'm going to roll the dice and say that he stays healthy, which if he can, and in fairness to him, he was hurt last year, dude.

And then we'll kind of see how things progress as the year goes along.

Defensively at the linebacker position, Dorian Williams listed as the starter over Caleb Elarms or the rookie.

That was another competition that went on throughout this off season into training camp.

The hype surrounding Elorms Orr was really, really heating up at the start of training camp, but once the pads went on, it started to die down.

Linebacker, I mentioned my issues with that group previously.

Don't love Terrell Bernard's prospects.

Dorian Williams, I don't think he's a surefire starter in this league.

And then Caleb E. L.

a fullback, running back, multiple tight ends, one wide receiver.

When they decide they're going to run things like that, what do we have to answer with? Well, we do have smaller linebackers, but you have a Dorian Williams.

You now have a Elam Zor that you can roll out there and say, okay, I trust the physicality of these players more so than a Terrell Bernard, and I'll take Terrell Bernard off the field.

It's okay.

So I'm not going to really think much about that.

The one, though, I did think more of Dorian Williams ahead of Caleb El-Armzor on the depth chart.

And I do think that is how they line up.

I think it will be Terrell Bernard at the Mike and Dorian Williams at the Will.

I think so too, at least early on.

And I think that maybe eventually we see a change and Terrell Bernard even potentially moves over to Will and Caleb El-Armzor steps into a more prominent role as the Mike.