Holes on 2026 rosters?

This is for .NET experts to express their opinions on our current roster, identify areas of strength (galore), weakness (of any), and propose how to fix them.

Not many holes for sure. Others have observed you never can have enough pass rushers.

However, relying on any rookie at any position is always a risk, until that player proves himself.

If anyone from the media, any media, chimes in they will say QB.

Personally I don't see any. Our CB room behind our top 2 looks a little shaky but only because so many unprovens (Pritchett, Neal, Dansby, Fuller) and Igbunogene (sp?) not living up to his 1st rd selection yet. The D-line scares me a tad, I feel we need more depth and youth there with Leo and Reed both getting up there in age. Those two aren't just great at their roles but they make everyone else around them better.

I think every unit is at least at the above league average level with no glaring holes. Injuries can obviously skew things but when healthy this roster seems loaded top to bottom. Matt highlighted a couple of rooms that could go from good to questionable with an injury and he's not wrong either.

RB & CB are full of rookies & unprovens and depth/injuries are a bit of a worry, but we have bodies.

Yes there’s three holes, on the sides of the page that says roster so you can clip it into the three ring binder

OK seriously though I’d say there’s a hole at linebacker, outside linebacker, we have Derek Hall and we lost Boye Mafe. I guess we do got Drake and Knight, but I put them more as true linebackers and not outside linebacker pass rushers. I wouldn’t call it a hole because we got Fowler and Lawrence, but that spot could get thin real fast by next year. I wonder who would you guys rather have Boye Mafe or Derek Hall? and maybe the decision came down to that neither one was that great so Derek Hall was already on the roster so just let Boye go and maybe Derrick Hall goes too, and we start over at that spot I don’t know, but that would be my position of need

you said holes

Our strength:

1. QB
   We are three deep: a Super-Bowl winning QB, a starter-quality QB, and a QB of the future.
2. WR
   JSN is unstoppable.
3. OL
   Schneider quietly assembled an OL that powered our RBs, even the Super Bowl MVP.
   

- It's a HOLE new world.

- Let's go win the HOLE thing.

- HOLE'y shit.

HOLE lotta love

toffee said:

Our strength:

1. QB
   We are three deep: a Super-Bowl winning QB, a starter-quality QB, and a QB of the future.
2. WR
   JSN is unstoppable.
3. OL
   Schneider quietly assembled an OL that powered our RBs, even the Super Bowl MVP.

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let’s not go overboard, we are not 3 deep at QB. No team is.

RB has enough to be a sum of parts between Charbonnet, Price, Wilson, Holani and McIntosh to succeed.

On offense I would say OT4, OG4, and TE4 but if you are looking that down on the depth chart you are in pretty good shape.

On defense the team shored up question marks depth wise at CB, and Safety via free agency and the draft with a double dip approach. That double dip approach targeted safety, boundary CB and NCB. With said with Nwosu injury history you have Hall being one step away from being into a starting spot so who is your three? Ivey? Ivey is your three ideally behind Lawrence and Fowler.

Behind Murphy you have Pili but they went out and drafted Eastern which indicates it was still a concern. But I am not too concerned about the fourth NT on the depth chart but they did bring in Uso Seumalo as an undrafted free agent. Behind Morris and Mills you have a logjam of player vying for PS spots but no one really challenging Morris or Mills.

So overall the team is a sum of all its parts like 2025 team construction wise and is built with depth in mind while having competent starters.

I think Fowler is a better rush specialist while Bud Clark is a true free safety so there are areas the team moved forward. Finley might make the final roster and having him as depth is a nice luxury to have along with Rodney Thomas II. Mac has a lot of chess pieces with veterans and mixed in rookies like the already mentioned Bud Clark, Julian Neal, Andre Fuller and Michael Dansby. Even if Fuller and Dansby don't make the final roster having these guys in the bullpen on the PS is a huge reserve to pull from for boundary CBs. When teams face a huge injury situation at boundary CB teams tend to run on fumes but Mac has a pipeline mentality for dealing with that worst case scenario at boundary CB.

Dallashawksfan said:

let’s not go overboard, we are not 3 deep at QB. No team is.

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Not many teams have that level of talent they can win with that deep at the position. Seahawks are in very good shape if you need Lock as a spot starter. Milroe as a spot starter could be hard to game plan against too.

Running back is my biggest question mark right now. Lots of unproven, yet hopeful, potential there.
But if none of these guys step up in Charbs absence, we may be in deep trouble. And even when Charbs returns, there’s no guarantee that he’ll have that same burst.

For a team that wants to run the rock, the guys carrying it concern me at this point.

I got a HOLE in one

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Now I'm craving a donut hole for some reason

Where are the posts about the hole at QB3 and how he MUST prove it this year?

Wait, we have QB depth? If either of the back ups are in, are you honestly saying "I feel comfortable with this". No, stop. It's Darnold or bust.

The biggest hole is at RG until the rookie can prove otherwise.

Mills by himself will improve the entire D line. Opposing teams will not game plan against a pass rusher from the edges, they will be focused on stopping the rush from the interior.

The Murphy/Mills combo next year will be the reason Mac gets Coach of the year. He drafted both of them early for a reason.

Im certainly not saying we're great at every position and there couldn't be weaknesses that manifest themselves during the regular season, but there seems to at least be a plan for everything at the moment.