We are talking about the D. What pieces?
Technically, we have no production coming back from the DL. If you move David O to DE then there is that. IMO he made a lot of mistakes last year, but that doesn't mean he cannot make a jump this year. The rest of the DL we have no clue what we have yet.
At LB we have AD, Bryant, and Tremble. I was not a fan of Bryant last year. The other two guys I like. At best we are still young and raw here.
CB IMO is the best unit. Samuel, Peal, Kerr.
If we play 3 Ss who will they be? Long showed promise so he should fill in one spot. What do we even have here? The fact that Buxton (who IMO was our weakest link) was still getting most of the PT this year is a concern for the talent level at S IMO.
Everyone is looking for quality DL in the portal. I don't expect to see us get anyone significant there. I think we can get nice pieces at LB and S though.
But back to the point, we had some quality kids Dino's last season. We will have to wait to see where these 2026 kids end the year to fully compare. But as of right now one cannot say that the talent is improved since most of these kids have not even played yet.