State of the U does another breakdown of a personnel type commonly seen in football: the hybrid defender.
Introduction
Each week State of the U will go over different scheme’s and personnel packages that are used in a given contest by each team to hopefully outwit their opponents and bring home a victory. So far in this series we’ve discussed the following:
In this edition we will analyze the "Hybrid" defensive player and how they have come to be used in football, how the league views the player type now and how these types of players impact the Miami Hurricanes moving into the 2015-2016 season.