'"Reggie had the setback last year," McDermott said, "but I know Reggie from tape in college and what he can do. We'll start with the middle-linebacker position, really, is where we see him, and 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. 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, from what I've observed and been told about him, he has that DNA."'