Who is your favorite Ute safety?

[ProudUte]

The top candidates would be: Williams, Blackmon, Weddle, Bishop, Lusk, Scalley, and Larry Wilson.
Larry Wilson is Utah’s only Hall of Fame NFL player. But, he played 60 years ago. I love Blackmon and Marcus Williams is a stud. I love what Bishop adds to our current team. But, in the end – I have to go with Weddle. I believe he will be Utah’s next Hall of Fame player. (I really enjoyed watching Lusk in the early 90s. He was our team leader on the 1994 top-ten team.)
Go Utes!!!

[thirtyfour-thirtyone]

Larry Wall.

Out of your list, Lusk is probably my favorite, but I think Weddle was the best player.  Here’s to hoping Bishop is consensus #1 by the end of his carreer. 

[RedUte14]

My favorite was Robert Johnson. dude was a ball hawk.

[ProudUte]

I forgot to add him to the list.  My favorite play of his was when he stripped the UCLA player of the ball at the goal line.

[Ute95]

Ernest Boyd, Robert Johnson & Eric Weddle.

[Yergensen]

If this is personal favorites/fun to watch factor and not best Utah Safety, I’m going with a ballhawk or big hitter. IMO because of his physicality and ability to separate players from cleats, Marquise Blair was fun to watch and a personal favorite. He also made that 2019 defense nasty and feared (so much that Jayden Daniels talked about it publicly), something missing in recent years.

[Utegator]

While I agree with you, I think the game has changed. Those hard hitters, while fun to watch, were only getting us targeting calls and costing us games. 

[UtesRule]

Eric Jacobsen (who prepped at Springville HS)!

Played for Utah in 1984, 1986-88.

Led the team in tackles and was All-WAC in ‘87 and ‘88.

He was a star on a bad defensive football team!

Runner up would be Morgan Scalley!

[ProudUte]

I loved Jacobsen.  He was our only defensive stud in the late 80s.  Besides that, he left the shadows of LES to come play in Salt Lake.

[Tony (admin)]

Weddle. But I loved how hard of a hitter Blackmon was. 

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