Left tackle, right tackle, you could put Troy Fautanu at tight end and it wouldn’t really matter to him. All he’s focused on is doing his job. Which means keeping his quarterback upright.
Though it’s notable that Fautanu flipped from his college home at left tackle to right tackle for his first NFL practice, the shift is more dramatic for outsiders than it is for him.
“Regardless of if the quarterback can see my rusher or not, I gotta block the guy,” he told reporters in video shared by Yardbarker’s Aaron Becker. “So that’s my mindset whether or not I’m on the backside or the front side.