What are the football positions?

What are the wing and falcon positions in football?

• What are the wing and falcon positions in football? how does wing differ from just a normal halfback

• Answer:

  1. Wing is just an old term for what a fast halfback does today. He lines up in a position where he is a threat to hit an edge or inside seam on a designed play. The wing is so named for the old Wing-T formation. http://www.football-plays-and-drills.com/wing-t.html 2. The Falcon is a defensive player, much like a safety or fast linebacker, whose responsibility is mostly unaccounted for in a tradition 10-man zone scheme. His job is to either rush the passer, or more often to read where or to whom a pass is designed to go and disrupt that area. The smaller D-1 college teams usually have a package with such a dynamic, athletic player in that scheme, and that player can have many different position names. Air Force, which had a Top 10 pass defense last year, uses a Falconback defender. Back when NFL pass rushing expert Patrick Chukwurah played for the University of Wyoming, that was the name of his position also.