Mullen/Collins consider strong and free safety two very different positions -- and are used very differently in our defense. Hughes will back up Market at Strong Safety until he gets back to full speed and/or is good enough to overtake him, which is largely a run support/assignment position for us. Almost a linebacker from an assignment perspective. Free Safety will be between Cox, Evans, and Antoine as of today -- and it's the centerfield/help position that can bump up into coverage occasionally as well.

Free safety is the position that needs the microscope IMO given Cox's blown coverages early in his career -- and the fact that we haven't seen much of Evans or Antoine yet. You blow those coverages from the safety position, it makes your corners look stupid getting burned deep, and breeds a ton of mistrust on the whole defense. We REALLY need someone to step up and control that position next year...