With this past weekend’s addition of Neville Hewitt, your Houston Texans now have 11 players defined as linebacker on the roster: Christian Kirksey, Zach Cunningham, Kamu Grugier-Hill, Nate Hall, Tae Davis, Kevin Pierre-Louis, Joe Thomas, Duke Ejiofor, Garrett Wallow, Hardy Nickerson Jr., and of course, Hewitt. This list doesn’t include players like Whitney Mercilus, Jacob Martin, and Jonathan Greenard who used to play linebacker in a 3-4 scheme.
Apparently Nick Caserio misses a few linebackers when he tried to sign ALL the linebackers back in March. Since then the team has added several in both free agency and in the draft by selecting Wallow.