He does have some safety type alignments and responsibilities, at times, which you have said yourself. The crazy thing is I'm the one that is saying he isn't primarily a DB/safety and shouldn't be counted as such. You are adamantly saying that he is predominantly a defensive end/linebacker (Which he is) but for some reason you are still counting him as a DB in their base defense. The reality is that he does all three things some but the vast majority of the time he IS in the box, which again is confusing to me because you are saying that he is usually at linebacker or defensive end yet saying he is usually not in the box.Your original point was that sutphin was a safety/backer hybrid. He isn’t. The Salem coaches do not consider him an end. They think of him as a strong side backer who will walk up on a TE. They call it a 4-2 because there are only 2 backers in the box in their base. #42 is the will backer, and he will split out versus spread sets. You are debating your point about alignments and responsibilities from an offensive perspective. The defensive coaches look at it from a defensive perspective. If as an offensive coach you want to call it a 5 man front, go ahead, the defense doesn’t care if you want to call it a 4 or a 5.
Or... are you actually trying to say that #31 Sutphin is generally in the box but Wood #42 is generally outside of the box? If so, that is a completely different argument and it is simply not accurate.