Dynamic playmaker Sione Takitaki moved on to the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, while Butch Pau’u, Riggs Powell, Adam Pulsipher, Nate Sampson and Rhett Sandlin also exhausted their college football eligibility.
This season, four of BYU’s top six safeties are seniors: Austin Lee, Sawyer Powell, Austin Kafentzis and Beau Tanner. So naturally, expectations are high along the final wall of defense.
“It’s a group that has a good amount of experience and maturity,” said safeties coach Preston Hadley. “But mostly it is a group of winners. We’ve got three or four winning players back there at safety who can go out and compete with anybody.