re: Where would you rank Devin White amongst all LSU linebackers?

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Devin is the only Butkus award winner in LSU's history.

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That is the argument I would make for putting him #1.

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Let’s not get caught up in when a player played...cause trust me..you’re gonna be much older one day..and you’re not gonna want some college kid telling you Devin White is irrelevant.

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Michael Brooks played in a time (1983-1987) when LSU (program & players) didn’t get the respect that they do today.

And he blew a knee his senior year.

But before his senior season, all of the pundits considered him to be a mortal lock for the then (1985) recently-instituted Butkus award.

This is one reason that I don’t put too much stock in post-season awards.

They’re always a partial popularity contest, and if a player falls off the radar for any reason, regardless of his skill level, he gets ignored.

Even so (and in an era when knee reconstruction surgery was Stone-Age, compared to today), he was Denver’s 3rd Round pick in the 1987 draft, and he had a solid 10-year NFL career with the Broncos, Giants and Lions.

Devin White is certainly the best linebacker to come out of LSU in the last thirty years.

But I’ve had the privilege of seeing both of them play.

And for my thin and dusty dime, Michael Brooks is the GOAT.

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Who remembers Roovelroe Swan? What could have been.

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