How Micah Hyde Can Become an Every-Down Player for Green Bay Packers

April 2, 2014   ·   Michelle Noyer-Granacki   ·   Jump to comments

Fifth-rounder Micah Hyde was not a fixture in the Green Bay Packers' base defense last year, instead seeing most of his snaps in sub-packages—but that will change in 2014.
On March 25 at the NFL owners meetings, Mike McCarthy told reporters that Hyde "deserves the opportunity to be an every-down player on our defense."
With Tramon Williams and Sam Shields slotted in as the starting corners and Casey Hayward returning to join Jarrett Bush and Davon House for depth and use in the nickel and dime packages, the Packers should increase Hyde's snaps by playing him at safety part of the time.
In his rookie season, Hyde played 39.4 percent of the defensive snaps, and the majority of those were in nickel or dime sub-packages, covering or blitzing from the slot, according to ESPN.com's Rob Demovsky.
If McCarthy truly wants to see Hyde on the field on every down, the Packers could utilize him the way they did Charles Woodson after Nick Collins' neck injury in 2011.<...

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