Random Pieces: Linebackers Need to Step Up Including Athletic Trip White

STILLWATER – I’m fresh off doing my Big 12 position rankings and the linebackers, so having ranked the Cowboys No. 11 in the Big 12 at that position, then it is easy to pinpoint a need for one or more linebackers to pick it up. The need is not just to pick it up, but help carry the expectation of massive improvement over a defense last season that quite possibly the worse statistically in school history.