ABQCOWBOY;3292925 said:
But he's so natural as a cover guy or defensive back. It's a lot easier to teach a guy to run a pattern and catch a deep ball then it is to teach him how to cover. At 6-3 and speed like that, if he were a WR, he would still make a team. I honestly don't know if he can make a team as a Safety in the NFL. He just doesn't have the ability to cover players and he is a horrible form tackler. I guess we'll see.
Of course he'll make a team at safety. I don't think there's anything easy about teaching a kid to play WR if he doesn't have natural hands, otherwise a failed CB could just switch to WR.
I'm sure in HS and lower levels he played some receiver since he was probably, even then, big and fast. So that he ended up being a safety at the next level makes me think it was more natural for him.
I grew up "the tall kid", I was 6'6" by senior year of high school and everyone assumed I should play center when I was more natural on the perimeter. No matter how much they tried, I wasn't the type of guy that enjoyed posting up and backing a guy down, I preferred to get the ball in space and face the basket. But I joined the team, and of course I played center because I was the tallest but by the end of my time there, they were running me off screens for the 3.
My point is, just because he's big and fast doesn't mean he can play WR.
