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This dude sounds like an older poster I recognize. If it's who I think it is, hope you stick around this time and keep talking football.

Think most people call it an overhang, hang or hanging. I've seen defense folks teaching it that way. But who knows. Seems we're referring to the same player. One of the reasons I like defense so much is because I feel it requires so much more to keep up with a game that's openly trying to...

End man on the line of scrimmage? As in the DE/Edge? That's the read-option, and a totally different [run] concept. Re: the hanging defender in the RPO, I'm talking about the role typically played by an OLB or Safety in the box (completely off the LOS), as I mentioned earlier in the thread...

This is a tighter definition than what's being tossed around. I've always understood it through the hanging defender.

It's 2019 and we still, as a board, want to shoehorn RPO as a single thing. It has so many variations now from under center, the gun, outside WRs, bubbles, the slot, etc., that it's actually a fascinating concept used at all levels of play. But, let's be absolutely clear, it's not exclusive to...

One primary version of the RPO is definitely a post snap read and you read a hanging defender (usually a LB or in the box Safety) and either pull the ball or hit the pass where the hanging defender vacated.