With regard to Nichol, I don’t completely disagree with you, Keith is a hell of a player and there’s a lot of benefit to having him either at receiver or at quarterback. The bowl game was a unique situation, where Keith was, pretty much without a doubt, the third best receiver we had available at the time. Come fall, that won’t be the case anymore, and I’d just hate to see him get hurt, and then if Cousins goes down, we’re looking at Andrew Maxwell as the #1 quarterback.

I’d like to see Nichol play WR in select situations, adding an additional fold in the offense where he can play as a traditional WR, shift into the QB position in wildcat formations (which we saw in the bowl game), or catch the ball behind the line of scrimmage and then throw the ball downfield. To me, that has more value than just keeping him in a strict wide receiver role.