VOL Outlaw
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Playing him at STAR it seems the coaches are looking for a way to get him on the field. Pruitt said he's a guy that continues to show up.
"We’ve moved a few guys around. Just an example, like Keyshawn Lawrence. He’s a guy that we recruited in here to play corner, so all during the summer when we had the walk throughs, he played corner and as we practiced a couple of days he looked really good, but we didn’t think maybe he was going to be in front of Alontae (Taylor) or Bryce (Thompson), but we thought, ‘Hey, this a guy we want to find a way to get him on the field.’ So, we’re thinking maybe in our six defensive back package, move the kid to safety and give him a chance to be a starter in our six defensive back package. So, he practices at safety for probably seven or eight practices, and then we lose all of our corners to quarantine and to be able to practice, just to have numbers we move him back to corner. That’s a particular situation that probably wasn’t fair to him and it’s probably delayed his development as a defensive player, but we’ve just left him at corner, and he’s done really well.
"This week, we’re going to play him a little bit at STAR in this open week just to see from a conceptual standpoint how he does there because he’s a guy that continues to kind of show up. Tamarion McDonald is another guy that obviously didn’t practice any until two weeks ago, so this is a really good week for him just to go back to the first four days of fall camp. How we put in everything from middle field coverage to split safety coverage to man-to-man, to fire zones, to pressures with trap and things like that, just to kind of go back and get a foundation for him. There’s is a lot of guys that kind of fall into that.”