Indiana University Athletics
National Signing Day Press Conference – Dec. 16
12/16/2020 4:30:00 PM | Football
Below is a partial transcription of the Zoom press conference with Indiana head coach Tom Allen on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
Head Coach Tom Allen
ALLEN: I want to welcome everyone here. I am excited for Signing Day. It felt a little bit different today. We had a chance to do some cohort work with our guys this morning, but we balanced that with the guys sending in their papers. It is not the faxes anymore as it is sending in the text messages with all of the confirmations. It is still an exciting day. It is definitely unique to have a class that has not been here on an official visit, but many of them were able to come prior to COVID-19. I am really excited about this group. It is not a large number of guys, only 14. We still have six different states represented and one from New Zealand, so we have a little international flair to it. We have a good balance on offense in regards to different positions represented. We signed two offensive linemen, a tight end, two running backs, a quarterback and three wide receivers. Defensively we went heavy in the secondary and a defensive lineman, so only four on defense. We are really excited about the quality of the players. We feel that they fit with us off the field with their character and the way they have been raised. The way they play the game in terms of effort, skill and talent, they are guys that fit with us. We are excited about them. This is a group that we had committed as a complete group before the season even started. They all stayed with us and we knew it was going to be a smaller group from the beginning. We are really anxious to get these guys on campus and will have five mid-year guys. That is really exciting as well. We have five of the Top-11 kids from the state of Indiana that signed with us. That is a special thing for me and is very important. It has been a priority with me from the beginning is to see our best players in the state of Indiana choose to stay home. That is a big deal. We are really excited about that.
I am also excited about our All-Big Ten players that were selected today on the defensive side of the ball. We have four first-teamers, one on second team, one on third team and one honorable mention. Micah McFadden, Jerome Johnson, Jamar Johnson and Tiawan Mullen all made first team, which is the first time that has ever happened here. That is a record for us. Seven total players are also a program record. Cam Jones was honorable mention and he is a guy that will continue to grow and be a great player for us. Jaylin Williams made second team and Devon Matthews made the third team. It is a tribute to what we built here. Great job done by Kane Wommack and the entire defensive staff. These are guys that we have all recruited to come here out of high school. It is neat to see them come here, be developed and flourish. It has been an awesome thing. I am excited for them.
It was a big day for the Hoosiers. I am ready for questions.
Q. On D.J. Matthews…
ALLEN: I have known his high school coach. In fact, I coached against him when I was a young coach at Temple Heights. We played against his high school, Trinity Christian in Jacksonville, two years in a row. I have known Coach Verlon Dorminey for almost 30 years. I really appreciate him and all he has done in this time and all of the great players that they have produced. I already had that relationship there. D.J. is a gifted athlete, for sure. He is another weapon to bring to our offense. He is a very skilled punt returner, one of the best in the Atlantic Coast Conference. We have an older group of receivers and a younger group with a gap in between, so it gives us a chance to create more depth there. He has a chance to come in here and compete and make plays. That is what we challenged him to do. As we bring the young guys around, as we tell all the guys that we recruit, they will have a chance to compete and earn a spot here. Competition is what makes you really good. Having a lot of weapons on offense is what you have to have. I am excited to have D.J. Matthews join our football program.
Q. On adding guys in the spring and mid-year enrollees…
ALLEN: We do not have many spots left. You can only replace what you lose and we are not losing many this year. We will not expect to add too many more, maybe a couple, but I do not see there being a lot of movement. James Evans, the punter from New Zealand, will be coming to this country for the first time, which is always an interesting type of situation as a mid-year, but that is not all that uncommon with specialists from Australia or New Zealand. Other mid-years are Vinny Fiacable, D.J. Matthews, Joshua Sales, and Jordyn Williams. We are excited to have them all as we think those are guys that have a chance to help us right away. We can develop them, get them in the weight room, and they can be part of spring football. That will give them a jumpstart on the season.
Q. On Donaven McCulley…
ALLEN: I had him at camp and saw him when he was young. We were his first offer and I just saw that natural, quick release that you cannot coach. He obviously was already tall. He is a 6'4, 6'5 guy. He was long and lean as a younger player. But it was just the physical part you want and what you see was the effort with which he throws the football, and you just knew he was going to keep getting better and better, and he did. I still think his best football is ahead of him as he continues to grow and mature. He is a very, very gifted basketball player on a very talented basketball team there at Lawrence North. Also runs track. He does those things year-round so he does not just zero in to doing one thing all the time. But the thing that really stuck out as we offered him, because you do that off of what you see physically, but then you start to get to know them. And that was where I felt like he really started separating himself in my mind as, hey this is a guy you want leading your program one day, and just the character. I have a lot of strong relationships there at his high school. I know the principal and the AD well. I went to high school with them, actually was raised with them from New Castle and knowing his high school coach for a long, long time. Coach Patrick Mallory played here and just when you know them that well, you get to know, hey this is who this young man is and they are going to tell you the truth because of that relationship, that trust you have with them. Just such a great young man, and you start talking to people around the school and the way he handles himself, and being able to take a program that he is coming from and help lead them to a historic season themselves and help build that program there and be a part of that change and be a part of creating that belief there is just kind of the things we talked about; being able to do that here. And obviously it has already started now, but when he was being recruited that was just starting to happen a year ago and then obviously commit to us even before this season actually played itself out. But I just saw those qualities in him. A gifted athlete that even last year before their tournament was canceled there in basketball, he is making game-winning shots in back-to-back games there in those high-pressure moments. I just like that kind of thing. The guy is competing in other sports and playing at a high level. To me that matters, because you want that competitive toughness. You want that competitive greatness that a young man has. To be able to be at his best when it counts the most in those types of settings. That is what I saw out of him, and I think that he has got an opportunity to come here and be developed, and buy in like I believe he will, and work extremely hard in the weight room and in the classroom, and represent our program in a first-class way on and off the field. I just think that we are so blessed to have him, and as you mentioned he is a finalist for Mr. Football. He won the position award already for the state of Indiana at quarterback and he is going to come here and have a great, great career I believe.
Q, On Jordyn Williams…
ALLEN: I think any time you come early, it gives them a jumpstart on learning the playbook, a jumpstart on their physical preparation. Just the mental adjustment to college, and the schedule and all of the things that you do. And how that just really, really puts them in a stronger position to play in the fall, and I guarantee that is his expectation. Now he has got to come in here and earn that like everybody else does, but as you mentioned he has played both in Georgia and in Texas, and high-level football. He played a national schedule at his high school in Texas and all across the country against some of the best teams in the country. It just brings a confidence to him, and it is play=making ability in space. That is really a lot, but it has become that kind of game. Defense has to make plays in space to get guys on the ground, and special teams is that way and offense is obviously that way. That is what we do here. That is how we like to play that game, and so to me the more weapons we can have the better for us, and he is going to have the chance to come in here and compete and earn his spot.
Q. On the entire class staying together and recruiting changes based on recent success…
ALLEN: I think it is unusual that they all stay together. But I will tell you what, there is one thing about this group that really, and they did it on their own, which is maybe more impressive, was they really connected together. They formed a group text, that was on their own. They stayed here when they came to visit, a big core of them, and as guys would commit, they would connect them to the group, and they really did a great job and I think that helped bond them to where they, hey, we are all in this together, we are coming here together to do this and to help build Indiana Football. I think that connected them, but obviously the success we had here during the season, that really just kind of proved everything. As I was messaging them and I would get them on the phone I would say, hey we are doing everything we say we are going to do and it gave it a chance just to solidify everything that we had talked about to the families to them when they came to visit. I think they just got closer and closer, and the bond got stronger as the season wore on, and I just think there was no chance these were not going to stick it out. There are a lot of kids that have decommitted here lately because of the fact of not being able to get to places, and just lack of connection and different things that this pandemic has caused. But I think having a smaller group was obviously something we knew ahead of time. That is totally what you plan for because you are just replacing what you lose numerically in your senior class. But I just think moving forward that that is an important thing. When you think about how this is going to look in the future recruiting and how we have to do things with the next class, I mean there is a lot to be determined about that part of it. But I do feel like the 2022 class for us, we kind of said this all along is going to be a big class. We expect it to be a large class numerically and we have been planning for that and building for that, and that is where I really see the true benefit of the change and what we are able to do, and who we attract here based on on-field performance is the '22 class and beyond. Like I said, this class was already committed and together, and pretty much done by the time the season started. So what we have done on the field right now, the things we have been able to do, even today you go through and you think about that list of guys that is on that All-Big Ten list. Jerome Johnson had no Division 1 offers out of high school, and he came from a small town in Mississippi. I knew his head coach, I recruited that area at Ole Miss and I knew him and we brought him here on an official visit and had not even offered him yet and I kind of convinced everybody here, I was not the head coach at the time, and convinced them to take him. We had specific film. I had to go through and pull film from the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game, which he played in and show clips of him playing just to convince the coaches here that, hey this is a guy that I believe has a chance to be a special player here. He had no Division 1 offers at that time. We saw that potential in him and he comes here and he has developed into a first-team All-Big Ten player. Micah McFadden was not a highly recruited guy. We already talked about him in the past. He had two power five offers, and we were one of them. He has come here, now he is a first-team All-Big Ten linebacker. Tiawan Mullen is another guy that, he is undersized, but he had a lot more going on in recruiting for sure, but a kid that just bought in and believed in this program. And you know the story about in my office when he wrote down the 50, 26, 10, and just come here with a different edge about him, and now he is first-team All-Big Ten. Jamar Johnson, same thing he had offers and all but was not like some national guy. And he believed in us and we believed in him. He came here and he made some positive changes in the way he did things on and off the field. He has developed into a great player, he is first-team All-Big Ten. I could go on and on and on about those guys and to be able to convince them, you say okay in recruiting, this is what we are able to do with these guys. These guys fit this culture, they fit what we are looking for, and they came here, they bought in, they believed and they were developed, and then the product on the field is indicative of that. To me that is as valuable as anything. I get it, winning on the field is a big deal. Every kid wants to say, how can I benefit from coming to Indiana. How is it going to allow me to reach my goals and my dreams, and that is what we want to be able to do. You want to personalize all of this and show this is how we see you, and obviously as they come here we want them to be able to buy into the team and not care who gets the credit because it is not about me, but also understand that when the team does well who gets recognized, the individuals. That is how it works and I tell them that. We talk about that. I told our defense that when I first got here. When you try to get recognized first, it never works. But that whole concept is what we want. That is where I see the benefit. Like I said, we have a big class coming up here for 2022 we believe, and we did not sign any linebackers this year. We are not losing any linebackers. We are going to have to get a couple of linebackers in this next class. That is where we have got to do a great job of really having; and it could be challenging because I do not even know what the evaluation is going to look like moving forward or when we are going to be able to leave campus or when can they come to campus. Those things I do not know right now. But it is going to be a very important class coming up here in 2022.
Q. On what the defensive back honors mean on the recruiting trail…
ALLEN: You are able to point to these guys and tell their story. We can tell them 'that can be you.' If you come here, buy in, do the things that we ask you to do, you make the sacrifices necessary to be special, you do all of the things that we want you to do in the film room, on the practice field, in walk-throughs, in the weight room, and all of the things that it is going to require to build that performance on game day, you lay it out for them and you tell them it can be you. If you choose to come here, believe, buy in, and work the way these guys have been willing to work, that is the key, it is all about how hard you are willing to work. You look at the guys we have, Larry Smith III is a very talented football player out of Florida. He has so much instinct to him and play-making ability. He is always around the football. He can play safety or corner. He has a lot of Tiawan in him. He has a knack for the football. He gets the ball out, whether that is strips or pass breakups. He is a great blitzer. He has all of the instinctual things that makes him a great player. Jordan Grier out of Georgia is very athletic. We have a model and are looking for a certain body type, a certain skillset in each one of our defensive back positions. The ability to play both corner and safety is a huge asset. Speed is huge. We are going to play man coverage, we are going to play some zone coverage, so we are trying to find guys that have that flexibility to do multiple things. We are really excited about Jordan, his athleticism and ability to be around the football. He makes plays when he has the ball in his hands. Maurice Freeman is a really physical player from Virginia. I love his film. He is so explosive. He will probably be more of a husky or free safety guy for us because of his physicality. He is able to blitz off the edge and be a great special teams guy. Watching his kickoff cover film gets me fired up. He is laying folks out. He is looking for people to hit. Those three guys give us a lot of talent and a lot of play-making ability. That is what you have to have. We are a three-safety defense. You take a guy like Raheem Layne, who will be back with us, he is a very gifted player that can play multiple positions. He is probably a guy that can play them all. We are looking for the kinds of guys that are like that, guys that we can utilize and mix-and-match to fit our system. They all have a lot of speed and that is something that has to be part of this equation. We are really excited about the three defensive backs we added today.
Head Coach Tom Allen
ALLEN: I want to welcome everyone here. I am excited for Signing Day. It felt a little bit different today. We had a chance to do some cohort work with our guys this morning, but we balanced that with the guys sending in their papers. It is not the faxes anymore as it is sending in the text messages with all of the confirmations. It is still an exciting day. It is definitely unique to have a class that has not been here on an official visit, but many of them were able to come prior to COVID-19. I am really excited about this group. It is not a large number of guys, only 14. We still have six different states represented and one from New Zealand, so we have a little international flair to it. We have a good balance on offense in regards to different positions represented. We signed two offensive linemen, a tight end, two running backs, a quarterback and three wide receivers. Defensively we went heavy in the secondary and a defensive lineman, so only four on defense. We are really excited about the quality of the players. We feel that they fit with us off the field with their character and the way they have been raised. The way they play the game in terms of effort, skill and talent, they are guys that fit with us. We are excited about them. This is a group that we had committed as a complete group before the season even started. They all stayed with us and we knew it was going to be a smaller group from the beginning. We are really anxious to get these guys on campus and will have five mid-year guys. That is really exciting as well. We have five of the Top-11 kids from the state of Indiana that signed with us. That is a special thing for me and is very important. It has been a priority with me from the beginning is to see our best players in the state of Indiana choose to stay home. That is a big deal. We are really excited about that.
I am also excited about our All-Big Ten players that were selected today on the defensive side of the ball. We have four first-teamers, one on second team, one on third team and one honorable mention. Micah McFadden, Jerome Johnson, Jamar Johnson and Tiawan Mullen all made first team, which is the first time that has ever happened here. That is a record for us. Seven total players are also a program record. Cam Jones was honorable mention and he is a guy that will continue to grow and be a great player for us. Jaylin Williams made second team and Devon Matthews made the third team. It is a tribute to what we built here. Great job done by Kane Wommack and the entire defensive staff. These are guys that we have all recruited to come here out of high school. It is neat to see them come here, be developed and flourish. It has been an awesome thing. I am excited for them.
It was a big day for the Hoosiers. I am ready for questions.
Q. On D.J. Matthews…
ALLEN: I have known his high school coach. In fact, I coached against him when I was a young coach at Temple Heights. We played against his high school, Trinity Christian in Jacksonville, two years in a row. I have known Coach Verlon Dorminey for almost 30 years. I really appreciate him and all he has done in this time and all of the great players that they have produced. I already had that relationship there. D.J. is a gifted athlete, for sure. He is another weapon to bring to our offense. He is a very skilled punt returner, one of the best in the Atlantic Coast Conference. We have an older group of receivers and a younger group with a gap in between, so it gives us a chance to create more depth there. He has a chance to come in here and compete and make plays. That is what we challenged him to do. As we bring the young guys around, as we tell all the guys that we recruit, they will have a chance to compete and earn a spot here. Competition is what makes you really good. Having a lot of weapons on offense is what you have to have. I am excited to have D.J. Matthews join our football program.
Q. On adding guys in the spring and mid-year enrollees…
ALLEN: We do not have many spots left. You can only replace what you lose and we are not losing many this year. We will not expect to add too many more, maybe a couple, but I do not see there being a lot of movement. James Evans, the punter from New Zealand, will be coming to this country for the first time, which is always an interesting type of situation as a mid-year, but that is not all that uncommon with specialists from Australia or New Zealand. Other mid-years are Vinny Fiacable, D.J. Matthews, Joshua Sales, and Jordyn Williams. We are excited to have them all as we think those are guys that have a chance to help us right away. We can develop them, get them in the weight room, and they can be part of spring football. That will give them a jumpstart on the season.
Q. On Donaven McCulley…
ALLEN: I had him at camp and saw him when he was young. We were his first offer and I just saw that natural, quick release that you cannot coach. He obviously was already tall. He is a 6'4, 6'5 guy. He was long and lean as a younger player. But it was just the physical part you want and what you see was the effort with which he throws the football, and you just knew he was going to keep getting better and better, and he did. I still think his best football is ahead of him as he continues to grow and mature. He is a very, very gifted basketball player on a very talented basketball team there at Lawrence North. Also runs track. He does those things year-round so he does not just zero in to doing one thing all the time. But the thing that really stuck out as we offered him, because you do that off of what you see physically, but then you start to get to know them. And that was where I felt like he really started separating himself in my mind as, hey this is a guy you want leading your program one day, and just the character. I have a lot of strong relationships there at his high school. I know the principal and the AD well. I went to high school with them, actually was raised with them from New Castle and knowing his high school coach for a long, long time. Coach Patrick Mallory played here and just when you know them that well, you get to know, hey this is who this young man is and they are going to tell you the truth because of that relationship, that trust you have with them. Just such a great young man, and you start talking to people around the school and the way he handles himself, and being able to take a program that he is coming from and help lead them to a historic season themselves and help build that program there and be a part of that change and be a part of creating that belief there is just kind of the things we talked about; being able to do that here. And obviously it has already started now, but when he was being recruited that was just starting to happen a year ago and then obviously commit to us even before this season actually played itself out. But I just saw those qualities in him. A gifted athlete that even last year before their tournament was canceled there in basketball, he is making game-winning shots in back-to-back games there in those high-pressure moments. I just like that kind of thing. The guy is competing in other sports and playing at a high level. To me that matters, because you want that competitive toughness. You want that competitive greatness that a young man has. To be able to be at his best when it counts the most in those types of settings. That is what I saw out of him, and I think that he has got an opportunity to come here and be developed, and buy in like I believe he will, and work extremely hard in the weight room and in the classroom, and represent our program in a first-class way on and off the field. I just think that we are so blessed to have him, and as you mentioned he is a finalist for Mr. Football. He won the position award already for the state of Indiana at quarterback and he is going to come here and have a great, great career I believe.
Q, On Jordyn Williams…
ALLEN: I think any time you come early, it gives them a jumpstart on learning the playbook, a jumpstart on their physical preparation. Just the mental adjustment to college, and the schedule and all of the things that you do. And how that just really, really puts them in a stronger position to play in the fall, and I guarantee that is his expectation. Now he has got to come in here and earn that like everybody else does, but as you mentioned he has played both in Georgia and in Texas, and high-level football. He played a national schedule at his high school in Texas and all across the country against some of the best teams in the country. It just brings a confidence to him, and it is play=making ability in space. That is really a lot, but it has become that kind of game. Defense has to make plays in space to get guys on the ground, and special teams is that way and offense is obviously that way. That is what we do here. That is how we like to play that game, and so to me the more weapons we can have the better for us, and he is going to have the chance to come in here and compete and earn his spot.
Q. On the entire class staying together and recruiting changes based on recent success…
ALLEN: I think it is unusual that they all stay together. But I will tell you what, there is one thing about this group that really, and they did it on their own, which is maybe more impressive, was they really connected together. They formed a group text, that was on their own. They stayed here when they came to visit, a big core of them, and as guys would commit, they would connect them to the group, and they really did a great job and I think that helped bond them to where they, hey, we are all in this together, we are coming here together to do this and to help build Indiana Football. I think that connected them, but obviously the success we had here during the season, that really just kind of proved everything. As I was messaging them and I would get them on the phone I would say, hey we are doing everything we say we are going to do and it gave it a chance just to solidify everything that we had talked about to the families to them when they came to visit. I think they just got closer and closer, and the bond got stronger as the season wore on, and I just think there was no chance these were not going to stick it out. There are a lot of kids that have decommitted here lately because of the fact of not being able to get to places, and just lack of connection and different things that this pandemic has caused. But I think having a smaller group was obviously something we knew ahead of time. That is totally what you plan for because you are just replacing what you lose numerically in your senior class. But I just think moving forward that that is an important thing. When you think about how this is going to look in the future recruiting and how we have to do things with the next class, I mean there is a lot to be determined about that part of it. But I do feel like the 2022 class for us, we kind of said this all along is going to be a big class. We expect it to be a large class numerically and we have been planning for that and building for that, and that is where I really see the true benefit of the change and what we are able to do, and who we attract here based on on-field performance is the '22 class and beyond. Like I said, this class was already committed and together, and pretty much done by the time the season started. So what we have done on the field right now, the things we have been able to do, even today you go through and you think about that list of guys that is on that All-Big Ten list. Jerome Johnson had no Division 1 offers out of high school, and he came from a small town in Mississippi. I knew his head coach, I recruited that area at Ole Miss and I knew him and we brought him here on an official visit and had not even offered him yet and I kind of convinced everybody here, I was not the head coach at the time, and convinced them to take him. We had specific film. I had to go through and pull film from the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Game, which he played in and show clips of him playing just to convince the coaches here that, hey this is a guy that I believe has a chance to be a special player here. He had no Division 1 offers at that time. We saw that potential in him and he comes here and he has developed into a first-team All-Big Ten player. Micah McFadden was not a highly recruited guy. We already talked about him in the past. He had two power five offers, and we were one of them. He has come here, now he is a first-team All-Big Ten linebacker. Tiawan Mullen is another guy that, he is undersized, but he had a lot more going on in recruiting for sure, but a kid that just bought in and believed in this program. And you know the story about in my office when he wrote down the 50, 26, 10, and just come here with a different edge about him, and now he is first-team All-Big Ten. Jamar Johnson, same thing he had offers and all but was not like some national guy. And he believed in us and we believed in him. He came here and he made some positive changes in the way he did things on and off the field. He has developed into a great player, he is first-team All-Big Ten. I could go on and on and on about those guys and to be able to convince them, you say okay in recruiting, this is what we are able to do with these guys. These guys fit this culture, they fit what we are looking for, and they came here, they bought in, they believed and they were developed, and then the product on the field is indicative of that. To me that is as valuable as anything. I get it, winning on the field is a big deal. Every kid wants to say, how can I benefit from coming to Indiana. How is it going to allow me to reach my goals and my dreams, and that is what we want to be able to do. You want to personalize all of this and show this is how we see you, and obviously as they come here we want them to be able to buy into the team and not care who gets the credit because it is not about me, but also understand that when the team does well who gets recognized, the individuals. That is how it works and I tell them that. We talk about that. I told our defense that when I first got here. When you try to get recognized first, it never works. But that whole concept is what we want. That is where I see the benefit. Like I said, we have a big class coming up here for 2022 we believe, and we did not sign any linebackers this year. We are not losing any linebackers. We are going to have to get a couple of linebackers in this next class. That is where we have got to do a great job of really having; and it could be challenging because I do not even know what the evaluation is going to look like moving forward or when we are going to be able to leave campus or when can they come to campus. Those things I do not know right now. But it is going to be a very important class coming up here in 2022.
Q. On what the defensive back honors mean on the recruiting trail…
ALLEN: You are able to point to these guys and tell their story. We can tell them 'that can be you.' If you come here, buy in, do the things that we ask you to do, you make the sacrifices necessary to be special, you do all of the things that we want you to do in the film room, on the practice field, in walk-throughs, in the weight room, and all of the things that it is going to require to build that performance on game day, you lay it out for them and you tell them it can be you. If you choose to come here, believe, buy in, and work the way these guys have been willing to work, that is the key, it is all about how hard you are willing to work. You look at the guys we have, Larry Smith III is a very talented football player out of Florida. He has so much instinct to him and play-making ability. He is always around the football. He can play safety or corner. He has a lot of Tiawan in him. He has a knack for the football. He gets the ball out, whether that is strips or pass breakups. He is a great blitzer. He has all of the instinctual things that makes him a great player. Jordan Grier out of Georgia is very athletic. We have a model and are looking for a certain body type, a certain skillset in each one of our defensive back positions. The ability to play both corner and safety is a huge asset. Speed is huge. We are going to play man coverage, we are going to play some zone coverage, so we are trying to find guys that have that flexibility to do multiple things. We are really excited about Jordan, his athleticism and ability to be around the football. He makes plays when he has the ball in his hands. Maurice Freeman is a really physical player from Virginia. I love his film. He is so explosive. He will probably be more of a husky or free safety guy for us because of his physicality. He is able to blitz off the edge and be a great special teams guy. Watching his kickoff cover film gets me fired up. He is laying folks out. He is looking for people to hit. Those three guys give us a lot of talent and a lot of play-making ability. That is what you have to have. We are a three-safety defense. You take a guy like Raheem Layne, who will be back with us, he is a very gifted player that can play multiple positions. He is probably a guy that can play them all. We are looking for the kinds of guys that are like that, guys that we can utilize and mix-and-match to fit our system. They all have a lot of speed and that is something that has to be part of this equation. We are really excited about the three defensive backs we added today.
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/ FootballFB: Spring Game - Postgame Press Conference
Thursday, April 23
FB: Bray Lynch - Spring Practice No. 11
Tuesday, April 21
FB: Drew Evans - Spring Practice No. 11
Tuesday, April 21
FB: Nico Radicic - Spring Practice No. 11
Tuesday, April 21