Anytime a player shifts positions, it’s kind of a big deal. There’s big deals on the smaller side of the scale, like when a left tackle moves to guard, or a wide receiver moves to tight end. But then there’s the bigger of the big deals, when players switch not only positions, but sides of the ball. So it goes for our #10 entrant in the 2016 Top Player Countdown, Akron’s Jerome Lane, he of former linebacker but now wide receiver fame.
This year the Zips have staked their claim to the MAC on the back of transfers from P5 schools, and though Lane isn’t that, he did transfer units, position coaches, and function in his time at Akron.