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Originally Posted by Jim D
From the description, it sounds like the play had already passed him. He was behind the play and wide, just a few feet inside the sideline ready to follow the runner down the sideline to the endzone. That's a perfect postion to observe both the runner, the sideline and anything else.
If he is outside the sideline, there is more chance of someone - a coach, player, ball boy, etc. stepping up to get a better view of the play as it heads down the sideline. If he's out there he may need to swerve around them and get left behind. About five feet in for this particular situation sounds about right. Maybe he could have been a yard wider but his position wasn't bad at all.
Obviously if this was an interception and the play was heading toward me down the sideline I'd get off the field and out of the way, but since the play had moved passed him, he was fine.
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I suppose mechanics vary across the country... but a wingman following the play from 5 feet onto the field here would get not just dinged on an eval, but likely some words from his crew chief as well. There's SO much you can't see from ON the field (most notably - did he step out of bounds), because you get blocked by pursuing defenders. You need to be out of bounds on this play, trailing the play.
If your worry is sideline personnel getting in your way, you're not managing your sideline very well, and if you are, but they get in the way anyway, you have laundry to address that situation.