The 2020 season brings a couple of important “firsts” for the Arizona Cardinals’ Haason Reddick.
This will be the first time in his 4 years with the Cardinals that Reddick will be playing in the same defensive system under the same defensive coordinator.
This will be the first time that Reddick will be playing his most natural position of 34 SOLB.
Flashing back to Reddick’s rookie season, it was because of Deone Buccanon’s foot injury that Reddick suddenly found himself taking all his reps at WILB.
In many ways this was the confluence of two failures regarding two of Steve Keim’s 1st round picks—-first with converted college safety Deone Bucannon being forced into playing WILB, thanks back then to Darryl Washington’s fallout with the NFL and the team—-and then secondly with converted edge rusher Haason Reddick being forced into Bucannon’s WILB role.