Elijah Shumate Not At A Loss

ya gotta play to get the experience. he will only get better, and that's good for us.....

All I can say is that we really have great depth and talent on this team. I thought the secondary was weak, and then when we lost Collinsworth and then Slaughter, I thought it could be a disaster.
They are greatly helped by the front 7, but the secondary has held up their end of the bargain pretty well, and that is a tribute to the talent of the players and good coaching.

NDGUYINFL,

I see Shumate having the role of Slaughter from 2013-15. At safety you can have a four-man nucleus with Farley, Shumate, Collinsworth and Baratti, with Jackson and Russell returning as your starting corners, with the hope of continued development of Josh Atkinson and Jalen Brown. In an emergency, I could see Shumate possibly shifting to corner.