Throughout his first two seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, Dax Hill played safety for the team. But after some struggles on the field, the Bengals are moving him to cornerback full-time. And it sounds like that change is going well for Hill so far.
Dax Hill started 17 games for the Cincinnati Bengals at safety last season and is now being asked to play a completely different position. But even if it is a pretty significant change, it sounds like he’s doing everything he can to make sure that transition goes smoothly.
“It’s been good,” Hill said according to Laurel Pfahler of the Dayton Daily News. “I feel like obviously it was a transition, one I’m going to have to make but I feel comfortable. I trust the coaches. They’ve been preparing me well. Right now, just with OTAs, there’s only certain things we can do right now, but they’ve been getting me prepared.”
While Hill has played some cornerback throughout his football career including his time at Michigan, he made it clear that he has not played as much there as some people seem to think that he has. So this is a big change for him.
“To be honest, a lot of people think I played corner before, but I haven’t played too much, so I really have to start from square one and take it a day at a time,” Hill said. “Right now I feel like it’s been good. First day it was just a little bit different. Now I feel a little bit better in my techniques and certain things like that.”
Obviously, it’s a big change for a player to make at the highest level of the sport. We’ll have to see how it goes for him.
