NY Jets' Quinton Coples expects to make smooth transition from defensive end to linebacker

Posted Jun 5, 2013
Dustin Keller? No problem. Rob Gronkowski? Rob who? To hear second-year Jet Quinton Coples tell it, the best tight ends in the AFC East won’t be a problem for him as he makes the switch from defensive end to outside linebacker this year. “Dustin Keller? I wouldn’t let him get off the line,” Coples said. (New York Daily News)

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