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[QUOTE="Whitey23, post: 2041486, member: 216"]
Just read this article last week!  Interesting stuff.

[URL='http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2017/1/13/14184598/return-of-the-fullback-part-3-h-back-winston-dimel-spread-offense-rpo']Return of the Fullback Part III[/URL]

The spread offense was popularized with the rise of the singleback offense, which basically replaced the fullback with a slot receiver. However, teams learned that finding dual-threat tight ends was pretty difficult and then they further learned that having a blocker off the ball could have value in a spread concept even though the team could no longer run “four-verticals” with only three WRs on the line.

First off in terms of the two-back run game, being able to insert a lead blocker at the point of attack has certain advantages that you don’t get when you have three WRs and a TE on the field. Perhaps more importantly though, the “smashmouth spread” is based around the tremendous advantage that you can get from forcing a defense to account for two potential ball carriers each working behind a lead block.

The H-back alignment is perhaps a little more common, as is the TE/H-back de-facto FB, because they’re often big enough to use the couple of steps to knock back a DE on a kick out or trap block.
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