What if the Tigers don’t find an answer to their defensive end problem? This was a question I pondered frequently during the offseason. The defense was (mostly) set. More than 80 percent of the production was returning.
And then there was defensive end.
The Tigers lost more than 1,500 defensive end snaps from last season when Isaiah McGuire (515), Trajan Jeffcoat (413), DJ Coleman (371), Arden Walker (152) and Tyrone Hopper (128) walked out the door either due to graduation or transfers. Replacing that kind of production in one offseason is an incredibly difficult task to accomplish.