Field CB - Tyrique Stevenson/ Malik Curtis
Nickel CB - Te’Cory Couch/ Marcus Clarke
Boundary CB - Al Blades/DJ Ivey/ Isaiah Dunson
Or
Field CB - Tyrique Stevenson/ Al Blades
Nickel CB - Marcus Clarke/ Malik Curtis
Boundary CB - Te’Cory Couch/DJ Ivey/ Isaiah Dunson
Or
Field CB - Te’Cory Couch/Al Blades
Nickel CB - Marcus Clarke/ Malik Curtis
Boundary CB - Tyrique Stevenson/ DJ Ivey/ Isaiah Dunson
Couch can play outside at either Field or Boundary, but I think he could play Nickel if the plan is to keep Rique & Blades outside. I also think Clarke has potential to play Field as well too, but don’t think he’ll play at Field this year, maybe down the line.
I don’t think TRob will necessarily put those guys at the spots where I have them at, I just listed Curtis as backup Field in the first scenario because depending on what they do with Couch we essentially have 3 Boundary corners & 3 Nickels. But the point was to lay out at least 3 different possibilities depending on how TRob evals this group & where he feels most comfortable playing these guys at.
There’s some good potential with Couch & Clarke, but aside from them the cupboard was left pretty bare, this CB group gonna need a lot of development in Spring/Summer/Fall. It was pivotal to land Tyrique & in all honesty I’d be trying to find another CB out the Portal too, but I don’t think that happens.
But anyways, at Safety it could get interesting, with all 3 upperclassmen coming back & adding in 2 talented incoming Frosh with JW & Kinchens, plus having the 4 TF’s from last year in Tae Williams, Jalen Harrell (who I think will be the surprise of this group), Keyshawn Washington & Brian Balom, TRob has a pretty steep Safety room to work with & has every style of Safety on both ends of the spectrum at his disposal. I assume Bolden & Hall will start, especially if Manny will more than likely be making the final call on the Depth chart, but we’d be doing ourselves a major disservice if we had players like JW, Jojo (Kinchens), Harrell sitting on the bench all year.
And before you even ask, No I don’t think Tae Williams is a CB & considering he was injured last year we have to wait to see how he’s recovered from that come Spring ball. However, we do have 9 Safeties & 7 Corners, assuming no one hits the Portal between Spring & Fall camp, I can possibly see one of the Safeties being moved to CB to just to even out the DB rooms numbers wise & if that were to happen, I get why most would elect Tae Williams to be the S that could potentially get moved to CB. Although, I can’t really think of any of the Safeties moving to CB, they’re all pretty much just pure S’s. Either way, we’ll have a pretty crowded Secondary with a bunch of guys who are kind of stuck at their position & not really able to move to a new spot.
With all of that said:
FS - Gurvan Hall/ Avantae Williams/ Keyshawn Washington/ Kamren Kinchens
Rover - Bubba Bolden/ Amari Carter/ Jalen Harrell/James Williams/ Brian Balom
Striker - Gilbert Frierson/Keontra Smith/Chase Smith (also wouldn’t be shocked to see Harrell get moved to STK)
