'“Reggie had the setback last year. I know Reggie from from tape in college and what he can do and we'll start at the middle linebacker position, really, is where we see him,” McDermott said. “And in what innately comes with that position is the leadership skills. I know that his character, really, he possesses those leadership skills – to get us lined up, be the antenna so-to-speak of the defense….and over the years when you look at that position in this system. Guys like Luke Kuechly, guys like Jeremiah Trotter, that can check the defense, get us in and out of bad calls, bad defenses, set us up for success. That's an important part of that position, and Reggie, from what I can tell, what I’ve observed and been told about him, he has that DNA.”'