Mr. Multiple Dana Holgorsen is just days away now from unveiling his 2015 offense, and he’s excited. Yesterday he pulled the curtain back just a little bit and revealed a depth chart, and you were excited. We’ve been stuck on the receivers — and I’m so excited I’ve written three stories the past five days about what’s going on there — and the part I can’t get over is that what we see isn’t necessarily what we’ll get.

Now more than any time since 2012 Holgorsen has pieces that can be placed on different parts of the board. Daikiel Shorts, it seems obvious to me, is a big, big part of the plan this season. He’s basically won starting spots inside and outside, not just in his career, but in the past five months.

He’s inside now. The three receivers Lonnie Galloway trusts most are Shorts, Jordan Thompson and K.J. Myers. Each is an inside receiver. He can play the outside, and let’s not pretend Holgorsen and Galloway will unflinchingly trust the first-year players outside when Shorts is an option. Put WVU close to the goal line, where WVU sill oftentimes use just two outside receivers, and Shorts is going to be on the field.

“Daikiel has solidified himself as a guy we’ll use, even though he’s a slot guy, down in the red zone,” receivers coach Lonnie Galloway said. “I don’t know how yet, but I do know one of them is going to be Daikiel. The other ones depend on what personnel we’re in.”

Wherever he is, there’s no question Shorts is a starter-level option inside and outside.

He spends most of the precious practice time as an inside receiver, but the Mountaineers have Jordan Thompson there, too. WVU believes Thompson is too good to keep on the sideline, but they know Shorts is too valuable to have in a platoon, as well.

The offense and the players have evolved enough that playing Shorts doesn’t mean Thompson has to sit and vice versa. The Mountaineers can play Shorts and Thompson as inside receiver as part of four- and five-receiver sets and they can play Shorts outside and Thompson inside as part of three-receiver sets.

Either tactic relies on Shorts, who led the team with 45 receptions as a freshman in 2013.

“I just feel like I can do whatever the coaches want me to do,” he said. “Wherever they have more confidence in me, whether that’s inside or outside, I’m just trying to help the team out.”