BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech may have lost two of its top three cover cornerbacks from last season’s team, but don’t expect the Hokies to try to hide their young corners in the scheme this spring.
“We’re going to ask our corners to do exactly what Greg Stroman and Brandon Facyson and Kendall Fuller and all those guys before them have done,” Tech cornerbacks coach Brian Mitchell said. “And that’s to go out there and challenge wide receivers day in and day out.”
The Hokies do return 6-foot-3, 207-pound senior Adonis Alexander at the position. Last season, with a three-man rotation of Alexander, Facyson and Stroman, Tech allowed the third fewest touchdown passes in the ACC (16) and held opponents to the lowest completion percentage in the league (48.