The nuts and bolts of replacing Penn State safety KJ Winston

Putting together a football team is a bit like putting together a puzzle with no reference picture and no final photo you're trying to reveal. Each of the pieces fits together in some way or another, and the picture is determined by how well you find the complementary pieces and put them together. But some of those pieces are more important than others. They're corner pieces that fit in one specific way and give your end goal structure. This week, Penn State lost a corner piece in safety KJ Winston. However, to understand how Penn State head coach James Franklin and his staff can go about putting a new puzzle together, we need to understand the first picture and what each piece does. Only then can we fully mix this metaphor and get to the nuts and bolts of replacing Winston in the larger picture.