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Brooks: Bell's Return Deepens Buffs' Already Deep Pool Of Safeties

(First in a series of position-by-position previews of the 2015 Buffs to be posted on CUBuffs.com during the preseason. Today: Safeties/nickel backs)

BOULDER – Last season offered more time for reflection than he ever wanted, but on Wednesday morning Jered Bell and his new position coach squeezed in a private reflective moment before the Colorado Buffaloes assembled for their first on-field work of August camp.

“Jered and I were talking before practice,” said Joe Tumpkin, hired last winter to coach CU’s safeties. “It’s been 360 days since he was on the field.