Looking forward to the future by evaluating the development of safety Percy Butler
Forrest and Reaves both got injured and Butler was next in line to start at free safety. This is when we started to see some common issues arise. The first and most obvious was open field tackling. As the free safety, Butler was often left deep as the last line of defense, so when a runner or receiver broke free of the initial defenders, Butler needed to be the one to make the stop and prevent a bad play from turning into a terrible one.