Scherff was posted at the right tackle position for the team's first five practices in Richmond, Va., before being nudged over to the guard slot on Thursday when they hosted the Texans. Morgan Moses switched to tackle for the duration."All you're looking for with the fifth pick or any pick is someone who will help your team be successful," head coach Jay Gruden said. "We think Brandon can do that."
Well, clearly. Scherff was the team's No. 5 overall selection and Moses a third-round pick last year, but the Redskins have said they don't yet have a solid five etched in stone up front. Could the two end up being switched?
"That's a definite possibility," Gruden said at camp on Thursday.
Scherff is already finding himself trying to learn what is, in effect, a new football language -- after starting to the left side of the line at Iowa, Gruden and his cohorts put him to the right side. A rookie protecting the blind side of someone as fragile and Robert Griffin III, they felt, was too great a gamble.
But, that said, Scherff did play guard and tackle at school, eventually winning the Outland Trophy for his trouble. Experts have said he can only play tackle, others that he can only play guard. Then again, experts know nothing.
Gruden, for one, will wait for contact against real opponents to decide.
"We'll cross train them and let the exhibition games take care of themselves and we'll make our decision for Miami," he said.
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