No position room saw a greater overhaul for Virginia Tech than safety this offseason, with the Hokies adding four safeties in Rice's Tyson Flowers, Clemson's Sherrod Covil Jr, New Mexico's Christian Ellis, and Sam Houston's Isaiah Cash. Add in talented rising sophomore Quentin Reddish and it's created a wide open competition for not only the two starting jobs but also the entire two-deep depth chart.
Back in June, defensive coordinator Sam Siefkes shared his thoughts on the safety competition and how it feels wide open at this point.
"I think it's gonna be tight. It is one of the deeper rooms we have on defense. We ask those guys to do a lot and they all have different traits. Quentin (Reddish) looks a lot different than Tyson Flowers does. They provide different attributes for what we want to do. I won't call things in specific for what I think Q does well versus what Tyson does well. So that's gonna be a very interesting play during training camp is those guys I think feel and understand the level of competition that is in that room and that's by design," Siefkes said.
As the offseason has progressed, the competition remains wide open with Pry not only being impressed with all four transfers but also expecting all of them and Quentin Reddish to play this fall.
