Pete Carroll has long sought and valued versatility from his defenders — particularly in the secondary.
Based on the maneuvers the Las Vegas Raiders have made in free agency, the head coach is once again adding versatile defensive backs to his team. The two new safeties Carroll and general manager John Spytek brought in — Jeremy Chinn and Lonnie Johnson Jr. — can do a variety of things and aren’t pigeon holed into one particular aspect of the position.
Chinn, for example, is a bigger defender who has the physicality to drop in the box and be a force against the run but with enough speed and agility to play center field.