Quote Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy View Post
But he runs around a lot!

I'm pretty sure that's the entire thought process of people who suggest that Whyte could play wing-back.
He was playing as a winger at the time, and the one metric that he was anything other than completely forgettable in was he put in a lot of tackles. Has a bit of pace and can cross it.

It isn't a huge stretch of the imagination from a winger that tackles a lot to a wingback, but as pointed out he's been playing centrally for a while.