Tavon Austin has a new position. He’s still an inside receiver, but he’s been moved from the H to the Y.

It happened in the spring and, honestly, I didn’t notice it at first. And, honestly, at first I got the sense WVU doesn’t want everyone noticing it, either.

Somewhere near the end of those 15 spring practices — and I want to say this was maybe the last day before the Gold-Blue Game — I was hurrying from my basement office basement office to a practice and grabbed my notebook and WVU’s spring prospectus.

When I got to the field, I was looking through the roster and realized Devon Brown and Tyer Urban and Will Milhouse, among others, were on the roster but not the field.

I’d stupidly snatched up the bowl prospectus, but I made sure I had the right one the next time I came to practice. That next time, I was flipping through the pages and hit the depth hart and noticed Austin was where I’d just found Brown, Urban and Milhouse.

Forgive my curiosity, but remember, we don’t get to see formations when we get to see practice.  So I asked around a little, truthfully wondering if I was onto something, but suspecting I was noticing helmets without stickers.

At first it was relayed to me to be something like an experiment or for the purpose of versatility — basically the type of thing WVU might do in the spring.

And maybe that was the case.

Yet when we got our eyes on the pre-camp depth chart, Austin was still at the Y.

This matters, no matter how much people want to downplay it or insist, as Dana Holgorsen insists, “it’s not a big deal.”

To him, probably not. An inside receiver remains an inside receiver and, hey, if you don’t mind, don’t put too much of a spotlight on my offense.

Me? I see WVU’s best player and see that he’s changed positions — and I know nothing is a secret these days, so forget football espionage. Certainly there’s a reason this is happening before this season.

So I pulled some teeth and spoke in hushed tones or in dark corners for a while and eventually answered the question: Why the Y?