THE PROBLEM WITH BILLINGS
I know we all love the idea of another Big Snack to chew up space in the middle. The problem is, we've been moving more and more away from playing a 2 gap scheme. The game today is all about spreading teams out, forcing sub packages. Even if you use a player like that, there's too many ways to go around him. Some film on Billings to illustrate:
He's negated by the spread here. He gets very little push in the passing game, even when single blocked because the QB doesn't hold the ball. Billings is repeatedly gashed in the running game because Oklahoma can just run around him or cut him. And that's the most disturbing part of the tape on him: watch how many times he is effectively cut blocked. It's a lot.
Schematically I think we've moved away from this type of player, and for good reason.