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You are making it a lot harder than it has to be. None of them are actually prepared. We already have the template. You are looking for an athlete who is 5'2 or above, can run the 40 in 4.4-4.5, has quick enough feet to 7.0 or better in the 3 cone and can do a 4.1 - 4..3 shuttle. If he's a good enough athlete to do that, and has some physical toughness, you can teach a kid enough to contribute to the kicking game and play in a few situations where his size would matter.If the NFL had a good minor-league system, that would be a good area to try and develop players like that. With every roster space a premium, it's hard to bring along talented but un-prepared kids.
At its basic level football really isn't rocket science. Think about it. Every single year HS football coaches manage to put together functioning football teams out of freshman, sophomores and juniors, many who have never played before, and do it from scratch within 3 weeks, working 3 just hours a day, to become a functioning football team. Now if you are lucky you get just 4 or 5 guys to work with 60-80 kid, and do it part part time.
That's every year taking an amorphous glob of goo and somehow turning it into a what looks like a organized functioning organism in about 3 weeks. If you thought about what actually goes into it, its really impressive what these guys do EVERY year. Every year HS coaches have to get a dozen or so kids who have never played the game before ready to play
Image what you could do with superior athletes, 15-20 assistants working with 90 guys who actually know what they are doing, working 12 hours a day. Believe me. I wasn't a super coach, but I am confident, I could take a non-football player who was tough and willing and if he's a good enough athlete, he could coach him up enough to contribute to a football team.
Its not like they haven't done it already. In a sense they did it with Edelman.....twice. (WR and CB) and once with Nate Ebner. They did it with Steven Neal How would it be different. It would just take time, and while in the learning curve the contributions would be limited.
'But again, I'm not looking for a star, I'm looking for a body type who can compete against a similar body type in very specific situations. It's not a matter of "can" it be done, the fact is that it HAS to be done, or the only time the defense is going to stop an offense is when the offense F's up