Defensive linemen that wanna eat your children

It used to be growing up playing organized football, all the scrubs on the team were placed on the defensive line. It was kind of an unwritten rule that if you were placed on the d-line that you were then required to be the do-boy for the players that actually mattered to the team. In fact, if you were on d-line for a youth football team, you wasted your parents hard earned money. You should feel ashamed of yourself. That money could have went towards swinger parties!

Luckily for us, this sorry, no-good player to d-line mentality changes once you reach the high school level. It is only then that players are specifically chosen to play d-line based on their skill set. Even at the next level in college, some defensive linemen are converted from a previous position to fit the needs of their team.

Here is the list of guys who were probably the all-star QB of their youth league teams, who then went on to forcibly remove the spleen of all O-linemen in their way in high school and college.

1. Greg Hardy Ole miss
2. George Selvie South Florida
3. Fili Moala USC
4. Terrill Byrd Cincinnati
5. Greg Middleton Indiana
6. Auston English Oklahoma
7. Sen'Derrick Marks Auburn
8. George Hypolite Colorado
9. Everson Griffen USC
10. Maurice Evans Penn St.
11. Geno Atkins Georgia
12. Jeremy Jarmon Kentucky
13. Will Davis Illinois
14. Tyson Jackson LSU
15. Mitch King Iowa
16. Ricky Jean-Francois LSU
17. Terrance Taylor Michigan
18. Antonio Coleman Auburn
19. Brian Orakpo Texas
20. Nick Reed Oregon
21. Matt Shaughnessy Wisconsin
22. Dexter Davis Arizona St.
23. Vance Walker Georgia Tech
24. Jamaal Westerman Rutgers
25. Jan Jorgensen BYU

There it is. And not a single Gator player on the list!

Maybe I should do an honorable mention: Carlos Dunlap, Jermaine Cunningham, Javier Estopinan and Torrey Davis.

Now I feel better.