31.   In this draft, linebackers are invisible.

32.   Led by McDaniel, the Minnesota linebackers are active, shed blocks well and play better in the open than in closed areas.

33.   Linebackers are a better inside group than outside group.

34.   Linebacker is the core of the team.

35.   Linebacker Tobin scoffs at those who think linebacker is the weakest position on the team.

36.   Linebacker was a difficult group to crack for Chatham, Holmberg, and Moore, signed just last Tuesday.

37.   Linebacker is not a nice-guy position.

38.   McGinest was reacting to what the offensive tackle was doing, reacting just as linebackers are trained to do, instead of making the first move.

39.   Middle linebacker Strickland has been a laudable acquisition.

40.   No one, however, knows who the starting linebackers will be next season.