51.   Brownlow does not figure to be added to the battle for the starting middle linebacker job, a duel between Robert Jones and Godfrey Myles.

52.   Brandon Short, the junior middle linebacker who has missed two games with a sprained right ankle, has practiced all week and is expected to play.

53.   Brooks has been one of the leading tacklers on special teams in the preseason and is the current backup to middle linebacker Dat Nguyen.

54.   But Dick Butkus became and remains the model of a middle linebacker.

55.   But former Cardinals middle linebacker Eric Hill took linebacker Ronald McKinnon under his wing from the first day they met in minicamp two years ago.

56.   But he is the new middle linebacker because Marvin Jones has a sprained right knee.

57.   But he has been injury prone in his three seasons, and his absence this year created an unhappy move to middle linebacker for Mo Lewis.

58.   But he was playing mostly at middle linebacker behind Tracy Simien.

59.   But he has been even more of a surprise at middle linebacker, which is such a difficult position.

60.   But he is happily anonymous alongside the Pro Bowl-bound Jessie Armstead and middle linebacker Mike Barrow.