Cushing Maintains Top Spot on the Rookie-Meter During Bye
Check out the Rookie-Meter put together by Mike Holbrook of Pro Football. Texans' OLB Brian Cushing is still holding the top spot on the Rookie-Meter; ahead of Percy Harvin, Mark Sanchez, Michael Oher, Jairus Byrd and Brian Orakpo. This is great company, as there has been some truly outstanding rookie play this season. Of local note, also on the list is U of H former standout Sebastian Vollmer who laid the wood on Dwight Freeney Sunday night, shutting him out without a sack for the first time in nine games.
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your stament of Vollmer shutting down Freeney is not 100% correct
The playbook crew of nfl network examined the film and freeney was double teamed 36 of 44 pass attempts, i recorded the segment and uploaded it you ca view it in my fanpost:
Sebastian Vollmer had help on Freeney 36 out of 44 passing attempts.
by thebossuzzi on Nov 18, 2009 4:32 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
For those of us who are fans of teams regularly ass-slapped by him...
Double teams on Freeney are far from air-tight sack defense.
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by beefy on Nov 19, 2009 1:24 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
No clue why he's above Byrd.
Gotta be due to team records.
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by beefy on Nov 19, 2009 1:25 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I think the biggest knock on byrd is he isn’t that great in run support, but is getting better. And when your team is dead last in run d…
by nolander on Nov 19, 2009 2:13 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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