2024 Husker Signee Analysis: Defensive Back Roger Gradney
Football has always been a copycat sport and a game of chess between offenses and defenses. The west coast offense, Tampa-2 defense, if a system gives a team fits, rest assured it'll be adopted by most everyone else. With the advent of the no-huddle RPO spread offenses that have been prevalent in college football for the last 15-plus years, defenses have had to adjust. With offenses trying to exploit numbers and play in space, back-end defenders need to be as positionless as their offensive counterparts. Players on the second level of the defense need to be able to fill gaps in the run game, b...