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by pionar 4799 days ago
I've met Coby Fleener (I live in Indianapolis.) He's a very smart and just unbelievably nice guy.

Although, it's not that hard to believe. Many many offensive linemen come from top-tier schools (like Fleener, who went to Stanford) and it's becoming more common for QB's to do this as well (like Andrew Luck, who went to, well... Stanford).

Although, it's interesting that in the average scores, the "skill" positions (WR, FB, HB, etc.) all have lower averages than the non-skill positions.

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Not really all that interesting - the "arms race" in those positions over offence and defense is still very much stronger, faster, higher; along with the opportunity for creativity and improvisation being quite low. The other positions are more about the opposite.

One thing I didn't expect though was for safety to be so average. I thought it might be a little higher given the fluidity of the position, but then again safeties are usually bit players in the defense. Personally, I'd love to see a team try to run a defense through the safety.