A Breakdown of the Graham Zusi-at-Right-Back Experiment

Graham Zusi, awkwardly bragging on both his fullbacking skills and Minsky’s pizza.With the top-shelf discussion and banter generated by this year’s preseason piece on the Zusi-Gerso connection still fresh in my mind, it is — for me, at least — absolutely worth taking a look at how Sporting Kansas City Designated Player and still-USMNT stalwart Graham Zusi has taken to his position change to right back now that the games have started to actually matter.

Up until this past weekend, though, there wasn’t a great opportunity for a decent sampling of Zusi’s play as we can expect to see it throughout the season. Both the season and home openers were played in uncommonly frigid weather, and at the…