Arizona Cardinals inside linebacker Isaiah Simmons is expected to play a variety of roles this upcoming season. Drafted out of Clemson as the No. 8 overall pick in 2020, he played nine different positions there.
He didn’t get a bunch of playing time as a rookie due to the lack of an offseason in a pandemic year but learned six positions.
He believes can do what he did in college for the Cardinals.
“It interests me for sure,” he told reporters on Monday.
“I don’t really have an exact number, but I definitely believe I could play multiple positions just with the different skill sets I bring to the game,” he added.
He does have his limits, though. He named three positions that he probably won’t play.
“I’m not going to line up as a 3-tech or a nose,” he said, adding he could go to multiple places in the secondary. That said, he did add he would “probably leave the corner jobs to them.”
But his priority is his main position.
“As of right now, I’m just making sure I master the inside linebacker position before I branch out to other things,” he said.
But if we are counting, excluding the positions he excluded, we can expect to see him play off the edge, in the slot, in multiple linebacker roles and perhaps at both safety positions.
It is going to be an exciting year for Simmons and the Cardinals defense.
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