First and foremost I don’t think we can get too carried away trying to put the whole puzzle together right now. Let’s remember Browner is out the first four games and who knows how injuries will pile up. You ALWAYS need depth in the secondary and the Pats are lucky to have it heading into the training camp (hopefully).
Dennard has really been an outside corner since he got here. I know a lot of people projected him to the slot simply given his size, but we have yet to see him there at all unless I missed something.
Dennard also had a ton of issues last season dealing with his constantly-moving court dates and a number of injuries. He’s super tough though and kept playing through it all.
Now that he’s doing his jail time and can put that behind him and hopefully get healthy, he should be ready to go for 2014. I liked what we’ve seen out of him in his first two years, but he might have to develop some versatility to keep his job, i.e. playing inside and maybe even giving it a go on special teams.
But if you have Arrington and Ryan who can both play inside and outside and Dennard, Revis and Browner who are all primarily outside guys (Revis can play anywhere obvs) it’s a great place to start.
I’d guess weeks one through four we’re like seeing Dennard start on the right side opposite Revis with Arrington in the slot, assuming they all make it out of camp healthy, which is no given.