Tall athletic player

If he is physical, DE (Don't worry about weak and strong, he'll have to think too much, just play him right or left) if he is not physical, I put my tall players at FS because even the slow tall kids have range with their stride length and reach. When I coached at Lemoore, played David Ausberry (USC starting WR) at FS.

Play him at the 6 technique in the 3-5 and let him be free at a outside backer spot in the forty just send him on blitzes. The player will get cut to much if he is down on the line to long. I'm sue you don't want to see his legs in the air.

He will play offense and get at least 10 passes a game thrown his way. He have about 1600 in our school. Not huge, but a big school for our area. He does not play both ways and will play WR. He wants to play football and is very interested in defense. I like the safety idea. We are about 3 deep on the DL but we are very thin in the secondary. I have 1 free safety and a bunch of SS/Rov type kids. Very little speed, but a few kids that can move. 4.8 electronic (all our times are electronic) 40s. The rest are in the 5.1 - 5.4 range. Great kids that work hard but not blessed with fast twitch. The 3-5 was great last year and made us look faster than we were. Teams tried to pound us inside, which is what I wanted them to do since we are pretty big and strong. Not much man coverages but able to switch to a number of zone coverages with movement.

Thanks for the reply guys. You got me thinking.

Tiger ....

He is a standup TE in a spread offense. We run the pistol and use him in a variety of ways. We don't put him outside have him just run fades. He will almost always be on the weakside. I'm curious to see what other teams are going to do with their safety. We se a ton of 44 teams that run cover 3. He has incred hands. He runs a many shoulder routes and usually gets his shoulders square to the QB. The fin route is almost impossible to stop due to his size. Kansas really is high on him and it will be an interesting battle between basketball and football.

Overall, I'd love to use his gifts on defense. I will play around with different positions during our camp to see where to use him.

He is also a goalie in soccer.

Thanks for the reply.