“If you find a great one, and they’re great at a specific thing, that’s what you’d try to do,” Holcomb said. “I mean, if there’s a Luke Kuechly sitting in front of us, we have to take Luke Kuechly.”

But those kinds of players are rare, so improvising might be part of what they have to do.

The law of supply and demand kicks in at a certain point, as college offenses dictate the way teams try to defend them. So with more schools spreading the field, there are more players with coverage abilities than there might be three-down linebackers who can thump against the run and drop and cover a tight end with equal success.

“We may be looking for a certain type of player, a certain body type, a certain skill set, just because of how the offensive game is more