Position Switch?

I think this might be a slight overstatement

While we wait for mgrex03 to file his camp report, we can discuss the information provided to us by Mike Chappell of the Indy Star. In his Colts training camp article today, he stated that the Colts are shifting fourth round draft pick Jacques McClendon from guard to center.

Now, this move is significant because it sounds like it is not being done just to have McClendon be more versatile. It sounds like it is a permanent move. McClendon certainly has the intellectual chops to play center in the Colts offense. He got his Master’s in Sports Management at Tennessee. Not just his Bachelor’s degree. He had enough time, and brains, between getting that and playing football to also get his Master’s.

On the Colts line, there is no such thing as a “permanent” switch.  Guys are always moving back and forth from one position to another.  Even Jeff Saturday hasn’t played exclusively at center.  While the rest of BBS’s analysis about why McClendon would make a good center is spot on, I would caution against anyone falling into the trap of thinking of him strictly as a center now.  This might just be the “Colts way”.  Everyone has to learn every position.