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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 528042, member: 27"]
I glad am you have confidence a bunch of untried players, most extremely undersized and underweight, can play safety for us.  I don't.
 
Jaston George is listed on the SU Athletics football roster at 164 right now.  He isn't big enough to play CB, forget about safety.  It is ridiculous to think he can play there. 
 
Whigham is listed at 180 pounds.  Desir is listed at 179 pounds.  You can't play safety effectively at that weight; that is really light even for a cornerback.  Look at the disaster we had last season with Jermi Wilkes trying to play FS at 5'9 189 pounds. 
 
Wayne Morgan is essentially the same size as Wilkes.  They might have to move him there out of necessity but a FS who is 5'10, 191 is a real problem, even for a really gifted athlete like Wayne. 
 
According to Scott Shafer, Scissum will start out at CB.  He expects he will grow into a safety sometime down the road.
 
The facts are that we lost our starting strong safety to graduation, and our starting free safety is not very good and only has one year of eligibility left.  Eskridge is the only safety on the roster with decent size.  Kelly is a little undersized but his size is at least servicable.  Certainly better than the rest of the cornerbacks, some of whom will pressed into service playing safety this season.
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