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#justin-strnad

A 6ft 3in ballast in the paint, Crooks belongs to a protected class of hooper, the velveteen giant post players who win with touch as much as brute force. In the early 2000s, Troy Jackson a 6ft 10in, 375lb streetball legend who played under the stage name Escalade lit up And1 Mixtape crowds with his buttery shoulder rolls and no-look passes.

They're very good at home. Obviously, if you just look at their record, it is a great team over there. They have some really high-end players. We all know that. They play a very fast game. Their defensemen are very active. They skate really well; it's a good skating team over there, and their top line is very dangerous. We know that. MacKinnon is a great player.

Gardner-Johnson played in 10 games (made seven starts) with the Bears. He finished the year with two interceptions, three sacks, four passes defended, 51 total tackles (35 solo), five tackles-for-loss, and five quarterback hits. It felt like he was stuffing the stat sheet every week.

"At that point, the ball is in the air, I was playing off so I was able to see it pretty early, which doesn't happen too much," Gonzalez said. "Most of the time I'm always in press [coverage], but I was off and saw the ball and at that point it's like I'm playing receiver again. So, just find the ball, go up and get it at the highest point, secure it, and bring it down."

A knee injury sidelined Booker for the first eight weeks of the season, but he made his presence known quickly, recording a sack and forced fumble in his season debut against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 9. Booker was held out of the sack column on the stat sheet in his next five games, but finished the season strong. Headlined by a two-sack performance against the Cleveland Browns in December, Booker finished the season on a high note with a stellar five-game run.

If I was Miami Dolphins new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan or new coach Jeff Hafley, I wouldn't sign Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Malik Willis to a multi-year free agent contract to be Miami's starter. We'll find out in a matter of weeks what Sullivan, the former Green Bay vice president of player personnel, and Hafley, the former Packers defensive coordinator, think of the athletic, 26-year-old Willis, who is eligible to become a free agent.