From Ricky's TTL Notes (Fuente Quote):

Decision to play freshman wide receiver/tight end Drake DeIuliis

“Yeah, we put Drake in. It’s something we’ve been wrestling with for some time. Drake is a tight end that has a bright future here, that we started repping more on the outside these past couple weeks. I anticipate that he’ll continue to play quite a bit through the home stretch here. He’s a big 6-foot-6, 240-pound guy that I think is going to be a really good player, and that we’re working some on the outside and that we’ll work some on the line of scrimmage. We are just to a point where, in terms of our playmakers and guys that we’re trying to get the ball, I felt like he was a guy we couldn’t ignore any more in practice, that we needed to play him.”

“Part of it is that we know we’re going to face tight coverage. We know, particularly in the red zone, that we’re going to continue to face tight coverage. And we have not been very proficient thus far this year. Last year, we were as good as any place I’ve been. We got more tight coverage, and we were better against it, which is kind of odd, than I’d ever been anywhere. I’ve never seen as much of it and I’ve never defeated it as much we did last year. This year, we’re going to continue to see some of it, and we just don’t have enough guys right now that can win in that, and that’s probably the overriding, determining factor for getting him on the field.”