71.   Carlos Polk, an all-conference middle linebacker, concurred.

72.   Campbell was such a big kid he was always made to play center and middle linebacker in Pop Warner.

73.   Campo said Strickland, meanwhile, has earned the right to stay at middle linebacker.

74.   Cardinals middle linebacker Ronald McKinnon can relate.

75.   Chris Claiborne played most of the second half at middle linebacker after Taso Papadakis was hampered by a sprained ankle.

76.   Claiborne, a middle linebacker from Southern California, could be one of them.

77.   Commissioner Paul Tagliabue recently displayed the kind of toughness a middle linebacker might be proud of.

78.   Collins, an outside linebacker, will rotate with Moore at middle linebacker and also fill in for Tedy Bruschi at left outside linebacker.

79.   Corey Widmer, a part-time starter at middle linebacker last year, has signed again with the New York Giants.

80.   Corey Widmer will probably replace him at middle linebacker.