Let’s take a quick stroll through memory lane. I was never a good athlete, but I played football for a really small town back in high school - center on offense and a bit of a Swiss Army knife along the defensive front. As a freshman, I was a nose tackle before sliding out to defensive end as a sophomore.
When I got to varsity, my coach gave me the choice to slide back to linebacker because they wanted to two-gap with their tackles and had locked in ends. I was a 5-foot-9, 200-pound-ish kid with a lot more heart than talent.