Ridley can play the X all day. (For those who don't know the X receiver is the guy who has to play right on the line of scrimmage so the offense has the correct # of players on the line. It can suck for that player because the DB can jam him right at the line and take him nearly out of the play). He is so quick and explosive in both his upper and lower body that he can slip by a press and a DB could even choose to play off the line instead of jamming him. If they do jam him need to have a safety looking over there. It's a matchup coup either say.

Foster is a prototypical X though and is a better blocker out there on the close to the line DB for runs. It's just a great advantage to be able to swap in and out like that. The CB over there will be the same guy the whole game, but one play he's got Foster in his face and trying to sprint by, the next he has Ridley juking right off the line, coming in shallow for short screens and slants, or double moving deep.

Foster and Deiter provide the big bodies with good hands we were missing last year. All the good things done in the passing game involved a pair of thin, quick receivers (Ridley, Stewart) and a multitalented tailback. For 2016, outside of the ever so versital #17, Kiffin has every TYPE of receiver weapon an OC could ask for. Also, as solid as Mullaney and Drake were blocking on screens to Ridley, Dieter and Foster project even better, so that becomes a dangerous trio when we see them lined up on one side