The Syracuse Orange football team is just over a month away from kicking off the 2021 season, if you can believe it. Though it certainly feels like we’ve been previewing the upcoming campaign for months (because we have), we can finally say we’re in the home stretch now.

If you’ve missed out on our 2021 position previews to this point, start backtracking with last week’s offensive line deep dive. This week, however, were looking at the:

Defensive Line

Transitioning to a 3-3-5 scheme last year altered the demand on a veteran defensive to be more focused on run-stopping and staying at home than aggressive blitzing as they’d done in both 2018 and 2019 under Brian Ward.