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I wondered if teams were going to find a place for me, but the Bears said linebacker right away. I tried outside linebacker first…

— Brian Urlacher

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the…

— Junior Seau

What made me so different is they would use me all over the place instead of the traditional tight end where you're taking off…

— Tony Gonzalez

I heard I wasn't a good linebacker, I was too small and all that other stuff.

— Bobby Wagner

At the tight end position, you're asked to do so many things. You'll see me split out wide singled up like a wide receiver.

— Travis Kelce

That's what's fun about being a linebacker because you're commanding that whole defense.

— Leighton Vander Esch

It's just using my size. On the defensive end, it's using my length to disturb the smaller guys. On the offensive end, if there's…

— Khris Middleton

If I'm man-to-man with a linebacker, well, that's an automatic win because I can run by him. If I'm one-on-one against a corner, I'm…

— Jimmy Graham

Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given…

— Justin Cole

It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working…

— Gaines Adams

I'm used to going out amongst giants and being the smallest linebacker.

— Rohan Marley

You have to understand, it takes a lot of qualities to play linebacker - quickness, tackling ability and sheer force - so you just…

— Cris Carter