'"What innately comes with that position is leadership skills," McDermott said. "His character, he possesses the leadership skills to get us lined up, be the antenna, so to speak, of the defense. I'm not out there. 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've observed and what I've been told, he has that DNA."'