NFL Free Agent Primer: Which Defenses Would Thrive With Off-Ball LBs Nakobe Dean, Devin Lloyd?
Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast
Inside The Birds
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Adam and Geoff continue their annual NFL free agency primer by going inside the off- ball LB class, outlining ILBs who should be available, teams that need them, and the situation facing the Eagles potentially losing Nakobe Dean.
Timestamps
0:00 – 6:50 Top Free Agent LBs
6:50 – 16:25 Nakobe Dean
16:25 – 21:39 Other Free Agents
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| 0:00.0 | Inside the Birds is back. |
| 0:13.9 | What's up, everybody. |
| 0:14.9 | It's Jeff Mosher and Adam Kaplan. |
| 0:16.6 | We're continuing our NFL free agency primer. |
| 0:19.6 | We're in defense. |
| 0:20.8 | We've done offense. |
| 0:21.8 | On defense, we've done the front players, the edges, the IDLs. |
| 0:25.5 | Now we're going to talk about off ball linebackers. |
| 0:28.6 | And quite a difference, I would say, Adam, at least at the top, in the kind of player caliber. |
| 0:35.4 | That's a player available compared to what we went through with DTs |
| 0:39.0 | where, you know, if you're looking for an impact starter at DT, you're not finding one. |
| 0:44.1 | There's not a ton of impact off ball linebackers, but there's a few. |
| 0:49.0 | And there's some pretty decent ones. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, so depending on which team you speak with, it's either going to be Devin |
| 0:56.3 | Lloyd, Quay Walker, Nkobi Dean. Dean's missed so much time. Like, his tape is phenomenal. |
| 1:06.6 | Like, he's just, he's not a liability in coverage. |
| 1:11.1 | He's not great out, but he's gotten better. |
| 1:12.9 | He's a blitz. |
| 1:13.4 | He's a phenomenal blitzer. |
| 1:15.0 | One of the most instinctive inside backers in the National Football League. |
| 1:18.8 | Super smart. |
| 1:20.6 | Really, he's been so much better than anyone thought he could be. |
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