When I first suggested Lanning should move to DB on Aug 3, 2014, it was part provocative statement to get a rise out of the CF nation during summer camp, and part old school (Buddy Ryan ... Hayden Frye), defense fisrt mentality:
http://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/camp-notes.190791/page-3#post-4115826
The team was thin on defense, and I figured there was no way to win with the personnel they were planning to trot out there. I generally like the occasional 2-way players, and I think the modern day coaches are all too hesitant to go there. It's a football team, not a bee colony, after all.
Fasting forward to 2017, Lanning is getting a chance to make a good team better, instead of making a bad team serviceable. Being a Senior, he is more certain not to go out there and get himself injured. And if things go well, maybe we'll see him get picked as a LB/emergency QB by an NFL squad in April, 2018.