If there’s any moment that sums up the blurred lines between positions, it’s corners and safeties working in linebacker drills during practice. Evidently at Saturday night’s session, Marcus Allen and Mike Hilton saw action in the famed backs on ‘backers drill. Tomlin was asked why he used those two men in a typical LB drill.
“We rotated a lot of secondary guys down to running backs versus linebacker like competition because particularly the safety position is linebacker like,” Tomlin said after practice. “Yesterday in an attack drill, we brought Mike Hilton and Antoine Brooks down with the linebackers.