Karlaftis has been consistently solid in my view. Doesn't have that twitchy explosiveness which is preventing him from getting sacks but he is all effort out there. Pressures have come by pure effort and overpowering the opposing tackle. He is basically as advertised.
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I'm not going back and reading this whole thread, but are we crying about Karlaftis' lack of sacks?

Take time to remember Justin Houston didn't record a sack until 13 weeks into his rookie season. 11 years later he's sitting at 110 career sacks.

This isn't a Skyy Moore type of situation where the dude hasn't shown anything either. He's active out there. He's hustling.
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I think George is coming along just fine but I do wonder about your Houston comparison. Didn't they wait to start Houston until later in the season? I don't recall if he got much playing time at all before that. I'll have to go look up those numbers.
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According to this, he not only started all 16 games, he played 100% of defensive snaps, the highest snap percentage of his entire career.

https://www.pro-football-reference.c...ll_snap_counts
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I guess I was remembering wrong. According to Wikipedia (yeah, they're never wrong :-) ):


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It is pretty incredible to see that Houston played 12 games prior to getting his first sack.
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Yeah, I just remember being frustrated with that coaching staff and for some reason, my brain remembered them not giving Houston enough of a chance. There were a lot of things to be frustrated with that coaching staff but apparently, this was not one.

Edit: Looking at that, it shows he played 16 games but started 10. :-)
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Interesting, looks like you found a contradiction in their data.

His defensive stat line shows him starting 10 of 16. His snap count stat line shows him starting 16 of 16.
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The 10 games is probably correct. The opening depth chart from that year had Studebaker as a starting OLB and he logged 5 games as a starter opposite Hali according to their stats.
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Yeah, I agree. The snap count line seems to be incorrect. I wonder if his snap counts are incorrect too? I would like to think not but it at least casts some doubt.
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It's definitely wrong. Just checked some 'highlights' from the 2011 season and I didn't see him on the field a single time during the season opener against the Bills.
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Exactly.
Eye test on George is positive. It's encouraging to see him stay healthy, too. Spags would not trust him to be practically a starter as a rookie if he had nothing to show for. He looks the part. Last three games I watched him more closely and he was constantly hustling and putting pressure on the D Line. I'd rather have a guy like this who plays hard and won't cost you an arm and a leg when his rookie deal is up than some overhyped sack focused edge rusher who takes plays off. In order of where they were picked, McDuffie, George and Cook are ranked as they should. Skyy and Kinnard have been really the two dissapointments in this draft class. Let's hope we are proven wrong with time.
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Highlights? Of the 2011 season? :-). That's brutal.
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Well then maybe that's what I was remembering. Imagine starting Studabaker over Houston. :-)
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Yis. Why I put that word in quotations
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