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Eliminating False Step, Fine-Tuning Details Were Among Alex Highsmith’s Biggest Offseason Priorities

Football is a game of inches and milliseconds. Those small subdivisions of distance and time can be the difference between a completion or an interception, a sack or a completed pass, and a first down or a turnover on downs. Players at the highest level of the sport look for ways to get incrementally better, and one of the ways to do that is for players to conduct comprehensive tape analysis on themselves to identify inefficiencies in their game. Alex Highsmith, entering his NFL fifth season, thinks he found a couple small ways to improve that could make a big difference.