Anytime your defensive line loses two draft picks in Carl Lawson and Montravius Adams, you probably shouldn’t having a shining outlook for the next season. That is, unless you’re the group set to shine for the Auburn Tigers in 2017, which boasts a very solid and deep group that should uphold the benchmark set by the 2016 Auburn defense.
Auburn will lose a combined 13.5 sacks with Lawson and Adams departing to the NFL, but there’s plenty of experienced older talent to go along with the wild young bucks that the Tigers will play this season. Let’s check the group, shall we?