Quote:I was. But uhhh, it made sense at the time. I just thought about myself. 6'4 240 supremely athletic and very fast for my size. At 38 yrs old, I be killin it at safety in flag. Against yung beaus at that. So I was just thinking...

... Everybody grows up playing both sides of the ball. Why not let our 6'3 215 ProBowler of a fast rangy receiver play safety. I really dont understand why the idea is so far fetched. Dion was a supremely talented, great athlete, who played iron nan football on the grid iron. In fact he was not only a shut down corner, a very prolific wide receiver but also a duel return man and was great at that.


So why cant ARob play safety? Im pretty sure he'd lead the league in picks

It's far fetched because very few players on the NFL level play both ways for a reason.

 

Deion Sanders was a world class athlete with unreal speed.  Even with that, he didn't play both ways very long.  He played WR on a situational basis in Dallas-back when Dallas was a Super Bowl team.  He was not a prolific WR.  They did it because after Alvin Harper left in free agency, they really did not have a reliable WR opposite Irvin.

 

  http://www.pro-football-reference.com/pl...hing::none

 

Long ago...there was a guy named Roy Green who played for the Cardinals.  He started out as a DB, played both ways for a bit, then transitioned over to WR.  He, too had world class speed.

 

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/pl...eeRo01.htm

 

New England recently had Troy Brown, who spent most of his time as a one way player at WR, until late in his career, injuries forced him to play on defense.

 

The Texans have, on occasion, played J.J. Watt as a TE.  But he's not a starter at BOTH positions, even though he even played TE at one point during his career.  The overwhelming majority of his snaps are at DL.

 

But that is very very rare and it isn't sustained for very long. 

 

Allen Robinson, while a good athlete and an outstanding WR, is nowhere near the athlete in terms of speed, that Deion Sanders and Roy Green were.

 

Beyond that, the amount of training and technique at the NFL level is such that, even if you were to switch him, it would take a long time to become proficient at it, and you diminish his worth as a DB and a WR in the interim.

 

At the end of the day, moving him to FS is not at all worth the risk or effort, or cost to the offense and Bortles' development.

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