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[glazeduck]

While I agree that Hawkins is intriguing, I think that the idea of moving him is about more of "haves" and "have nots", rather than strictly talent. Dustin Haines, moving to a new position or not, will never be a starting calibur player for us, at QB or otherwise. Given the fact that we're extremely shallow at WR and appear to be set at QB for a long time to come (DT, Bennett 2 years after him, and apparently Randall, Mariotta and Manziell, and perhaps even Hundley), Hawkins may NEED to move to WR just to have warm bodies there.

If I remember correctly we recruited him for both positions and he said he'd be willing to switch to WR if necessary. As unfortunate as it may be (I thought he looked pretty solid in the SG as well), it may be necessary if the right dominoes don't fall where we'd like them to. Here's to hoping that's not the case though! I can't imagine w/ our QB depth that all those freshman QBs wouldn't redshirt at least, so we'll just have to see...

[brich75]

While I agree that Hawkins is intriguing, I think that the idea of moving him is about more of "haves" and "have nots", rather than strictly talent. Dustin Haines, moving to a new position or not, will never be a starting calibur player for us, at QB or otherwise. Given the fact that we're extremely shallow at WR and appear to be set at QB for a long time to come (DT, Bennett 2 years after him, and apparently Randall, Mariotta and Manziell, and perhaps even Hundley), Hawkins may NEED to move to WR just to have warm bodies there.

If I remember correctly we recruited him for both positions and he said he'd be willing to switch to WR if necessary. As unfortunate as it may be (I thought he looked pretty solid in the SG as well), it may be necessary if the right dominoes don't fall where we'd like them to. Here's to hoping that's not the case though! I can't imagine w/ our QB depth that all those freshman QBs wouldn't redshirt at least, so we'll just have to see...

I'll play devil's ad advocate here, It is also likely IMO that Hawkins can beat out someone like Mariotta and send him to the WR position. All in all we have a good problem right now. Same one we have at the RB position. I hope we have this problem all over the field. To much talent at one position. gotta love it!!

[glazeduck]

While I agree that Hawkins is intriguing, I think that the idea of moving him is about more of "haves" and "have nots", rather than strictly talent. Dustin Haines, moving to a new position or not, will never be a starting calibur player for us, at QB or otherwise. Given the fact that we're extremely shallow at WR and appear to be set at QB for a long time to come (DT, Bennett 2 years after him, and apparently Randall, Mariotta and Manziell, and perhaps even Hundley), Hawkins may NEED to move to WR just to have warm bodies there.

If I remember correctly we recruited him for both positions and he said he'd be willing to switch to WR if necessary. As unfortunate as it may be (I thought he looked pretty solid in the SG as well), it may be necessary if the right dominoes don't fall where we'd like them to. Here's to hoping that's not the case though! I can't imagine w/ our QB depth that all those freshman QBs wouldn't redshirt at least, so we'll just have to see...

I'll play devil's ad advocate here, It is also likely IMO that Hawkins can beat out someone like Mariotta and send him to the WR position. All in all we have a good problem right now. Same one we have at the RB position. I hope we have this problem all over the field. To much talent at one position. gotta love it!!

Definitely a great problem to have (minus the lack of WRs part). I'd argue that Hawkins, given his size and athleticism could make a difference at WR, rather than being, at-best, a backup qb (at worst he gets passed by Bennett), whereas Mariotta likely wouldn't make an impact at either.

Given our immediate need for WR help, Hawkins would appear to me, to be the more effective band-aid in the short term. If we really get all 3 of those guys or (in my ideal world) those 3 AND Hundley, I wouldn't be opposed to making Hawkins, Mariotta AND Manziell to WR. Probably a moot point for the time-being, and hopefully our WR recruiting picks up to the point where we don't NEED a band-aid there, but all interesting things to consider...

[GrandpaDuck]

I highly doubt Hawkins is moving.

In 2011, if you move Hawkins, you would have 1 Junior backed by a redshirt (hopefully) Freshman and 1-4 true Freshman. That would not be a good depth situation at all.

For receivers they could and likely will play just 2 wide receivers on most downs and use the deep talent pool at tight-end and Tazer.