2017 Skill Positions

Tight End is a way different story with Carter, Cotton, and Foster all gone.
Part of this is due to recruiting snafus on the defensive side of the ball. Freedom Akinmoladun was slated to be our next great TE. And I think he would have been. But last year (2015) we had absolutely no one capable of playing DE. So we moved Freedom from TE to DE.

Given that we have 85 scholarships just like everyone else in the nation, how can we be so short handed at TE, DE and center[SIZE=11pt]—[/SIZE]as well as the D-line and O-line in general? Who were we recruiting three and four years ago? It makes one wonder.
Freedom may have been a good TE. But even his high school coach thought he was best at DE. Freedom wanted to play TE so he was allowed to start out there but he was likely going to end up at DE. Would have been handy if he was kept more in the 255-260 range. 270 is too big and now he isn't as explosive, imo.

 
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