Here’s Tony Grossi on eight-year veteran defensive back Mike Adams, who’s challenging free agent addition Usama Young for the starting free safety slot in training camp despite having been “typecast as a special teamer and emergency fill-in in the secondary” since he joined the Cleveland Browns in 2007:
[One] thing in Adams’ favor is that coordinator Dick Jauron divides his safety roles truly as strong safety (closer to the line of scrimmage) and free safety (deep in pass coverage). Eric Mangini wanted his safeties to be interchangeable and play both positions, perhaps from one down to the next.
Instead of a jack of all trades, he can be the master of one.
“I still can play corner, nickel, dime and the strong safety with no problem,” he said. “That’s the beauty of it. I’m just at free safety.”
Which is interesting at least in that it helps to explain the comments by secondary coach Jerome Henderson to Joe Haden that w...
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