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ASU's Dasmond Tautalatasi looks, hopes to play like lion

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We'll get to Dasmond Tautalatasi's hair, the Arizona State football equivalent of Archie Bradley's beard for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

First, the basics on Tautalatasi.

He is a junior safety getting his first shot at starting after a redshirt season in 2014 and two seasons playing almost exclusively on special teams.

First-year defensive coordinator Phil Bennett jokes with Tautalatasi about playing him "just because I have nobody else," although there is a grain of truth to that because Bennett has has to revamp what statically was the nation's worst pass defense in 2015 and '16.