Jake Schlageer leading and learning for Colorado State

Colorado State senior safety Jake Schlager (8) took on a leadership role in the secondary in his first year as a starter. This season, he's expected to expand his capabilities in both regards. (Mike Brohard / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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FORT COLLINS — One would be hard-pressed to ask too much of Jake Schlager, who by personality, expects a ton from himself in the first place.

Welcome to the life of a perfectionist.

Even though he was starting for the first time in 2016, Colorado State's coaching staff needed him to fill a leadership void at a safety position that was filled with youth and inexperience, the…