Quote: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.

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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.

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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.