When Tyrice Knight missed part of training camp while dealing with injury, it opened up the opportunity for other players to get first-team reps. One of those players was Drake Thomas who on Monday, showed why head coach Mike Macdonald said, "You've seen what Drake is doing out there. Hard to take him off the field."

Thomas made his fourth start alongside Ernest Jones IV this season and has five passes defensed, 2.0 sacks and 32 tackles through seven games.

"Drake's a baller man," Jones said. "I said it at the beginning of the season. If things were to go down, regardless of the names in that room, bro, we got a bunch of ballers, a bunch of true linebackers who can go out there and any given Sunday they can go out there and make plays and Drake's just a testament to that. He's doing that

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