Falcons edge Vic Beasley was on top of the world in 2016. He led the league with 15.5 sacks that year, blowing all our socks off in the process. We gushed over Beasley’s potential and lost sight of the periphery (e.g., his historically weak pressure rates) because 15.5 sacks is a lot of sacks. But then all kinds of weird stuff happened in that year’s aftermath.
The Falcons moved Beasley from LEO to SAM in 2017. It was a move born out of necessity, even if the team didn’t want to say it at the time.