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As far as fully recovers, I saw him riding his bike down the road a few days ago and he seems like he's good.

Where do we go in the secondary? X is too talented and needed at HB to put him at corner and risk going down again. And do you put Hatfield at LB during the regular season?

Can't say yet on X...but as for the bolded...you definitely have to run Hatfield at LB...at least until the other guys can improve more. When Hatfield returned to defense last year Belfry saw a night and day difference. A team that for the entire regular season was a liability on defense turned into a dominant defense almost over night.

The Belfry starting defense went from being burned for 88 points in their last two regular season games to allowing 13 points against them in the Playoffs...and even that was controversial as Bourbon had a TD that may not have ever happened had there not been some fishy game clock action.

Hatfield simply changes the entire look of the Belfry defense and for as dominant as he is on offense... I think his value to the Pirates is clearly greater at LB.

Adding to this is the fact Belfry should have the depth and flexibility to cater to this. Fletcher played great minutes at FB last year and certainly has the ability to spell him, Belfry also has enough depth at HB they can "go small" if need be as well.