Out of the nine offensive tackles taken in the first four rounds of this year’s NFL draft, Dwight Freeney has said he can’t wait to get a hand on each one of them.
“I’m licking my chops,” he said, probably envisioning an even better year than he had last season, when he made 13½ sacks and helped lead his team to the Super Bowl.
“When you have a rookie offensive tackle, I can’t wait,” he said. “Because for an offensive tackle, you’re not good until you’re in like your eighth year. You’ve got to get beat up for a while to learn what to do and what not to. It’s when you’re about in your fifth through 10th years as an offensive tackle that you’re in your prime.
“All these rookies coming out? They don’t know anything. I can’t wait.”
If that’s the case, Freeney might want to circle Oct. 17 on his calendar. That’s when the Colts play a Sunday night game at Washington, when the Redskins presumably will have No. 4 pick Trent Williams lined up at left tackle. He’ll be protecting the blind side of Freeney’s fellow Syracuse alumnus Donovan McNabb.
Predictably, though, Freeney gets even more pleasure out of driving young quarterbacks into the turf.
“I couldn’t wait to hit Mark Sanchez,” he said. “And I can’t wait to hit Tim Tebow even more.”
The Colts play the Broncos on week 3, and it is highly unlikely Tebow will be a starter on that game.
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