'14 IN OLB/S Drue Tranquill (Notre Dame Man)

Some Irish Bloke

Some Irish Bloke

Five foot nothin', a hundred and nothin'
Messages
6,346
Reaction score
5,922
Legacy said:
Chargers 90-in-90: LB Drue Tranquill

Should he not make their 53 man roster, I'd pick him up. He's listed as third string on the Chargers just released depth chart - but then so is Tillery.
Click to expand...



I mean, this was the 2nd from last paragraph in the article you linked...

Odds of making the roster/What to expect in 2019


Tranquill is set to be a shoe-in to make the final 53-man roster as a back-up across all linebacker positions. He has played a little at each Will, Mike, and Sam linebacker and should replace Nick Dzubnar as the team’s back-up Mike linebacker going forward.
 
Irish#1

Irish#1

Livin' Your Dream!
Staff member
Messages
44,617
Reaction score
20,101
Happy for Drew and hope he makes the roster. Now don't kill me. Drew was in good position, but that INT was all QB. Where the heck did that form come from? Dude is starting to go fetal position before he throws the ball.
 
dublinirish

dublinirish

Everestt Gholstonson
Messages
27,335
Reaction score
13,095
Irish#1 said:
Happy for Drew and hope he makes the roster. Now don't kill me. Drew was in good position, but that INT was all QB. Where the heck did that form come from? Dude is starting to go fetal position before he throws the ball.
Click to expand...

he'll make the 53. He's the primary backup at Weak and Strongside LB
 
GowerND11

GowerND11

Well-known member
Messages
6,540
Reaction score
3,296
Awesome to see for Drue. Also, those white helmets for the Chargers are sweet.
 
L

Legacy

New member
Messages
7,871
Reaction score
321
Chargers sites continue to project Drue in the final 53, taking the final LB spot. If they take eight LBs, then they'll include Nick Dzubnar. Uchenna Nwosu, starting OLB, left the last game with an apparent injury. No word on the extent yet.

Isaac Rochell and Jerry Tillery are currently listed as second string.
 
Last edited:
BeatSC

BeatSC

Well-known member
Messages
4,443
Reaction score
1,376
He’s getting it done on D too. Saved a first down with a pummeling tackle. He looks smaller in those unis
 
A

ab2cmiller

Troublemaker in training
Messages
11,455
Reaction score
8,536
Finished second on the team in tackles.
https://boltbeat.com/2020/01/30/la-chargers-2019-rookie-report-card-drue-tranquill/


Tranquill’s 75 tackles ranked second on the entire team, behind only Thomas Davis. That’s not too shabby for a guy who was on the field just over one-third of the time. But the Chargers also like to switch things up at the linebacker position.

Tranquill actually ended up having more total defensive snaps than Uchenna Nwosu, Denzel Perryman, Kyzir White and Jatavis Brown. One has to wonder what kind of impact Tranquill might have if he is on the field more often.

That is a decision the Chargers will have to weigh this offseason, but it’s also likely they are happy with him in the same role as well.
Click to expand...
 
Luckylucci

Luckylucci

Administrator
Staff member
Messages
27,770
Reaction score
10,153
Who's in an IDP fantasy football league, an avid ND football fan, and got outbid for Tranquill on the waiver wires? This guy right here. D'oh!
 
L

Legacy

New member
Messages
7,871
Reaction score
321
The Chargers found some real value in Tranquill, who was drafted in the fourth round with the 130th pick.

Contract details from Spotrac:
Drue Tranquill signed a 4 year, $3,178,808 contract with the Los Angeles Chargers, including a $658,808 signing bonus, $658,808 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $794,702. In 2020, Tranquill will earn a base salary of $585,000, while carrying a cap hit of $749,702 and a dead cap value of $494,106.
Click to expand...
The signing bonus is spread out over the four years and the annual salary escalates from $495k last year to $765k in 2022.

In comparison, Jerry Tillery, drafted in the first round with pick 28 per Spotrac:
Jerry Tillery signed a 4 year, $11,422,158 contract with the Los Angeles Chargers, including a $6,327,024 signing bonus, $10,002,591 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $2,855,540. In 2020, Tillery will earn a base salary of $1,014,189, while carrying a cap hit of $2,595,945 and a dead cap value of $8,420,835.
Click to expand...
Tillery salary last year was $495k, escalating to $2 million in 2022. His signing bonus is $1.581 million per year.

Per Spotrac,
Isaac Rochell signed a 1 year, $645,000 contract with the Los Angeles Chargers. Rochell did not get any bonuses.
Click to expand...
He is a free agent.
 
Last edited:
zelezo vlk

zelezo vlk

Well-known member
Messages
18,013
Reaction score
5,055
Tranquill got a nice write-up by writeup as the "most underrated player" on the Chargers https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-most-underrated-player-on-all-32-nfl-teams-ahead-of-the-2020-nfl-season

Athleticism like Tranquill displayed at the 2019 NFL Combine (4.57 second 40-yard dash, 6.94 second three-cone and a 37.5-inch vertical jump) married with strong coverage results coming out of college (80-plus coverage grades in each of his last two seasons) is a recipe for success in the pros. As a fourth-round pick, Tranquill had a limited role in his first season as a member of the Chargers’ defense, but he did some promising things during his time on the field, earning a 66.6 overall grade for the year. Even with the Chargers trading back up into the first round to take Kenneth Murray, there is plenty of reason to expect the second-year player out of Notre Dame to take another step forward in 2020.
Click to expand...
 
SaltyND24

SaltyND24

Well-known member
Messages
2,165
Reaction score
484
I feel so bad for Drue...due to breakout this year...Despite this unfortunate setback, there is no other player that I have full confidence in coming back stronger than ever...prayers out to him
 
Henges24

Henges24

BUCKETHEAD
Messages
4,805
Reaction score
1,584
Didn’t flip to the channel until he was on the cart but seen some pics on Twitter.. It looked pretty gruesome. His foot was not going the right way...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top