SEC Positional Rankings: Linebackers

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The LB talent is pretty well spread out this year. The nine linebackers on the media's All-SEC teams come from seven different teams. Phil Steele has eight players on his top two teams spanning seven teams as well. That's a pretty decent spread of talent. It's hard to find a breakout unit from the pack. But we'll try anyway.

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It's hard to isolate linebacker stats. I looked at the total defense stats, yards/play, rushing average allowed, and passing rating allowed. Then I look at the number of starts and tackles returning. I like active linebackers, and then I tried to bonus out those…