BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- The bull’s-eye that’s figuratively attached to Southern’s defensive backfield has gotten more eye-catching.Any Jaguars opponent, especially the first one — Louisiana Tech on Saturday night in Ruston, La. — figures to look at the relative experience of the players in the three layers of Southern’s defense and decide the secondary is the one to take aim at first.
The six starting linemen and linebackers averaged more than 10 starts last season, if you fudge the numbers and factor in the 13 games linebacker Daniel Brown started in his last season — two years ago before he was ineligible last season.
The five starters in the secondary averaged fewer than seven starts last season even before nickelback Rhaheim Ledbetter was subtracted from the equation earlier this week after being declared academically ineligible. Jamal Jenkins will make his first career start in Ledbetter’s place, meaning the unit that’s expected to start Saturday averaged fewer than five starts last season.
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