J.P. Shadrick
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Is special teams.
I mean, because most of the time you're acquiring players in the draft –
for a role in special teams, but most of the players that are that type of caliber athletes weren't asked to play a lot of special teams in college.
It's kind of rare, right?
There were a few.
Saban liked to have starters in key spots on teams because he knew he could trust them, right?
Not everybody does it like that.
But like Rayon Lane, for example.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay?
I mean, how do you – and they knew they identified him as a special teams player.
When they drafted him, they said special teams.
Okay?
Was Ray O'Leary a full-time special teamer at Navy?
He had spots.
He wasn't out there all the time.
Well, and that, I think, is a talent there.
I mean, I think he did play in spots on special teams.
But, I mean, I think it's pretty amazing when they draft.
Sometimes they draft players to play special teams specifically.