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GREEN BAY, Wisconsin: Rudy Ford, Jonathan Owens, and Darnell Savage together played 1,959 snaps at safety for the Green Bay Packers in the previous campaign. There’s a possibility that none of the three will be re-signed for anything more than depth and special teams since they are all eligible for free agency.

In the NFL, being a safety is not a premium position. Pay is the basis for franchise tenders; the least expensive position on defense is safety. However, it is an essential position for the Cover-1 and Cover-3 schemes that Jeff Hafley, the new defensive coordinator, intends to implement.

The foundation of Hafley’s defenses is having one ground-covering safety roam deep, in contrast to Joe Barry’s preferred Cover-2, which calls for two safeties to play deep to stifle the big play. To put it bluntly, it takes a rare kind of talent to have one player accomplish what two used to do.

“I believe that guy back in the middle of the field has to go get the ball when things break down and it’s thrown up in the air.” Hafley recently stated, “I think it’s a very important spot in the defense.”

The most famous Cover-3 defense belonged to the Seattle Seahawks and their famed Legion of Boom secondary. In that, Earl Thomas played deep and Kam Chancellor played underneath. That’s not necessarily how general manager Brian Gutekunst wants to build, though.

“The other thing is, as you guys know, particularly defensive backs, you do have a lot of injuries with defensive backs in this league. So, guys got to be versatile and do a number of things because you just don’t know what lineup you’re going to throw out there each week.”

In fact, Gutekunst stated that he would prefer the slot defender and his two safeties to be interchangeable in a “perfect world.” It will be up to Hafley to make it work if he can’t find safeties with that degree of adaptability.

Gutekunst went on, “I feel good that a player who is really good at one thing, maybe not another, will find that spot.” “From a personnel manager’s standpoint, having some of those players can somewhat restrict your ability to assemble a roster. Therefore, I’d like those people to have enough versatility to be used interchangeably.

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