Playing safety...

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  1. JCBRAVE

    JCBRAVE goTitans 2019 Survivor Champion

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    Me either.
    Because he wasn't our best DT when Tony Brown was in.
     
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  4. wplatham

    wplatham U of M Class of 2012

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    Does anybody have an example of cornerback who successfully moved to safety? This idea has been thrown around for a while (and in Finnegan's case for years), but I just don't think it is that simple. I think you are going to find that this move has a very low success rate.

    As somebody said before, this isn't Madden.
     
    #52 wplatham, Feb 13, 2012
  7. griff33daddy

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    mccourty or whatever his name is from the pats...i may be wrong but i think he did but he is young so im not exactly sure...
     
    #53 griff33daddy, Feb 14, 2012
  10. Clark

    Clark #ShoutboxAlley4Life

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    Mccorty did spend some time at safety for the pats. Not sure how he did tho.
     
    #54 Clark, Feb 14, 2012
  13. xpmar9x

    xpmar9x The Real Slim Shady

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    Good thing about this years safety is there's alot of options.

    cheap available safeties:
    Hamza Abdullah, Tom Zbikowski, Brandon Meriweather, Craig Steltz, Reggie Nelson, Gibril Wilson, Abram Elam, Chris Harris, Erik Coleman, Courtney Greene, Tyrell Johnson, Jim Leonhard, Steve Gregory, Atari Bigby, Madieu Williams, and of course Jordan Babineaux.

    more expensive available safeties:
    Dashon Goldson, Tyvon Branch, LaRon Landry, Michael Griffin, and Thomas DeCoud.

    draftable safeties:
    Mark Barron, Antonio Allen, Harrison Smith, Duke Ihenacho, George Iloka, Markelle Martin, and Aaron Henry.


    Now we just need two/three of them :) I'd like Babineaux & Zbikowski and Markelle Martin in the 3rd.
     
    #55 xpmar9x, Feb 14, 2012
  16. xpmar9x

    xpmar9x The Real Slim Shady

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    Antrel Rolle?
    Malcolm Jenkins?

    Pretty sure both played CB in college, and switched to S in NFL... but I can't think of any who played primarily CB in the NFL then switched later in their career.
     
    #56 xpmar9x, Feb 14, 2012
  19. JCBRAVE

    JCBRAVE goTitans 2019 Survivor Champion

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    Ronnie Lott CB gone Safety! Bam I win, game over.

    Here's some more position changes that have worked out.
    Troy Brown went from WR to CB.
    Mike Griffin went from CB to FS.
    Antrel Rolle CB to FS.
    Devin Hester CB to WR.
    Mario Williams DE to LB.
    Brian Orakpo DE to LB.
    Jason Taylor DE to LB.
    Bruce Matthews played C, G, and T.
    College QB's turn NFL WR's all the time. Matt Jones, Antwan Randel-el are just 2 names.
     
    #57 JCBRAVE, Feb 14, 2012
  22. Titans2004

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    Rod Woodson switched from CB to safety and certainly did just fine with the move.

    Finny was a safety in college and has plenty of experience playing zone schemes in the pros. He would have no problem playing safety. I invision him being moved all over the place just like Polamalu.

    I still think that Casey Hayward would make a good FS as well. Trumaine Johnson from Montana is another guy I think could do it.
     
    #58 Titans2004, Feb 14, 2012
  25. MrBean

    MrBean Master of Not Much

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    This guy would serioulsy argue against you:

    [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Lott"]Ronnie Lott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
     
    #59 MrBean, Feb 14, 2012
  28. Gunny

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    Aaneas Williams went from Corner to Safety I think.
     
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