With no "Impact Hits" allowed, NFL teams will no longer draft safeties - 4 corners

[g-dawg]

If "impact hits" or "devastating hits" are legislated out of the NFL, then why would any team draft or play a free safety or a strong safety in the NFL.

The whole purpose of the safety position is to make impact hits and to frighten wide receivers into not catching the football when they come accross the middle of the field.

Without the safety being able to play the role of "enforcer", then their talents are no longer needed. Almost by definition, safeties cannot cover the WRs or TEs like a cornerback can. If those hits are legislated out of the NFL, then I think NFL GMs would not want the skill set of a safety.

So NFL defenses would replace the two safeties with two corners and the back half of the defense/secondary would have four cornerbacks.

Think about it - that is what would happen logically......uggh!