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Six rookies made the 2019 Pro Bowl Trevon Wesco Jersey , but auspicious by their absence were two leading candidates for defensive rookie of the year.Colts linebacker Darius Leonard and Cowboys linebacker Leighton Vander Esch did not make the cut.The problem for Leonard and Vander Esch is the position they play. As weakside linebackers in a 4-3, they get judged by outside linebackers — pass-rushers — in the 3-4.The Cowboys tried to get around that in 2016, nominating weakside linebacker Sean Lee as an inside linebacker. He didn’t make the original list but ended up going as an injury replacement. Lee also made first-team All-Pro that season, which is a higher honor anyway.The AFC’s outside linebackers are Von Miller, Jadeveon Clowney and Dee Ford, and the inside linebackers are C.J. Mosley and Benardrick McKinney. The NFC’s outside linebackers are Khalil Mack, Ryan Kerrigan and Anthony Barr, and the inside linebackers are Luke Kuechly and Bobby Wagner. Both Leonard and Vander Esch deserved the honor. Both still could make the Pro Bowl as alternates.Leonard leads the league in tackles with 146 Shareef Miller Jersey , more than any rookie through 13 games in NFL history. He also has seven sacks, four forced fumbles, seven pass breakups and an interception. Vander Esch, who has started only nine games, has 117 tackles, two interceptions and seven passes defensed.Chargers safety Derwin James, Giants running back Saquon Barkley, Seahawks punter Michael Dickson Zach Brown Jersey , Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay, Colts guard Quenton Nelson and Browns cornerback Denzel Ward already have punched their tickets as rookies. Lindsay is the first undrafted offensive rookie to make the Pro Bowl. When the Patriots acquired defensive end Michael Bennett last month, they did so by trading their 2020 fifth-round pick to the Eagles for Bennett and a 2020 seventh-round pick. That’s the kind of move the Patriots love.In fact, since 2014 the Patriots have made 14 trades that involved a veteran player switching teams for swap of draft picks within two rounds of each other, according to the . That’s by far the most such trades in the NFL; no other team has even made seven such trades.In addition to Bennett, the Patriots acquired Kyle Van Noy and Jason McCourty, two key players on their defense, that way. Last year the Patriots acquired offensive tackle Trent Brown in such a trade Devin Bush Jersey , they got a good year out of him and this year he left for free agency, getting a big contract from the Raiders that will net the Patriots a third-round compensatory pick next year.Bill Belichick understands that the difference in talent between a fifth-round pick and a seventh-round pick isn’t much, so he doesn’t mind moving down on the third day of the draft if he can pick up a veteran player in the process. Those types of trades are one of the reasons the Patriots manage to stay on top of the NFL, year after year.