LA Rams UDFA George Silvanic: Return of the two-way player?

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Wait, what? Did the LA Rams sign an offensive lineman or a defensive lineman with the news of the Rams adding undrafted free agent George Silvanic from Air Force to the roster? Well, just for the record, he has been recorded as a defensive tackle on the team’s undrafted free agent signing roster.

There was a time in the NFL’s history, in its early formative years, that two-way players (defined as a player who plays both an offensive and defensive position) were more common. And then, they went the way of the dodo bird. Extinct, or, at the very least, wrested on the precipice of the brink of extinction.

The conventional thinking was that you would…