Sixth in a series of 11 parts. It comes tomorrow: edge runners.
He had a leg three years old, Sprot Ick Eason worked with JJ Pegues, but when Clemson’s defensive coordinator, and the former coach of Auburn’s defensive line, they decided to explore units that pressed the opponent quarter, he observed.
The rebels combined to generate 52 captures and 120 tacle for the loss, with both leading the nation, and in the middle of that, thriving after the change of position that altered the trajectory of his career, was Pegues.
He had transferred to Ole Miss, planted in the city where Pegues was called “the mayor of Oxford” and appointed the honorary mayor for a day, for his last three university seasons after a change to the defensive line and forged a role on the sides of the ball.