sportsmed86
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The Wade news is very surprising, but Clawson has earned trust on that. If it gives him a chance to start his senior year, rather than be the 4th or 5th receiver on the team, that's great.
I'm more surprised by Byrd. Colburn is great, but only has one more year and Carney is always banged up. The staff must have felt very strongly that: (1) Beal is a better option than Byrd (which is exciting) and/or (2) Byrd will be higher on the depth chart at db. Number 2 is either a good thing, or a really bad sign for the corners after our two starters.
Coach said half of Byrds offers were as a DB including Tenn. Said he wanted to change last year but they settled on one year as a RB, position of needed depth, then revisit but his heart was always with defense. Nice to see a 6' corner and 6'1" safety built to hit. Thought our 5'10" CBs did fine but we did give up a lot of YAC.