When speaking about the different opportunities this Six Nations could throw up, there was one name that Wayne Pivac was compelled to mention.
"A guy like Josh Adams can play in multiple positions," said the Wales coach.
"Where will he end up in this series? We'll work that out in training."
Pivac had something he wanted to tee up before the tournament began and he took his opportunity to float it publicly.
It's hardly a secret that Pivac is keen to try the Cardiff winger in midfield.
The 26-year-old has featured there in brief cameos, while he was in line to start there against Fiji before a last-minute injury spoiled his audition.
While Pivac would have wanted to see more, he's likely confident enough that lightning can strike twice when it comes to moving an established winger into midfield.
A year on from taking some autumn promise from George North in a 13 jersey and finally succeeding where Warren Gatland never did in converting the north Walian into a first-choice centre in the Six Nations title triumph, Adams could be the next cab off the rank.
Welsh players haven't exactly been flush with minutes since the autumn, with Covid cancellations aplenty. But Adams has got minutes under his belt.
More than that, he's had game-time at 13. When the mix-and-match Cardiff side took on Toulouse in remarkable circumstances, Adams was pulling the backline together against the odds.
The opening try was a perfect out-to-in line, while against the attacking prowess of the French giants, he showed his savvy defensive reading of the game.
Speaking about the switch to midfield in December, Adams admitted that not much would really change.
He knows that he might get more touches of the ball than he currently does on the wing. He also knows the defensive responsibilities he'd be taking on.
Whenever he's been called in, either in his midfield cameos, on the wing or even at full-back, that reading of the game defensively isn't something that had let him down.
Whereas he'd normally be concerning himself with back-field positioning and the defensive aspects of that, defending in midfield is all about staying connected in the chain.
He knows that, if selected there against Ireland, he'll be dealing with a relentless wave of attack as the Irish look to work off lightning fast ball - having made Pivac's side look horrendously narrow two years ago in Dublin.
That day, Pivac's other midfield protege, North, was hung out to dry as chaotic spacing around the rucks and Ireland's rapid ruck speed meant the Ospreys back continually got disconnected with his wingers outside him.
A year on, North coped against the Irish threat as Wales varied their tackle choice to right some wrongs.
For Adams, something similar would likely be key against Andy Farrell's men.
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There's no guarantee who will feature in Wales' back-row and what jackal threat it will pose, but from that crucial position of outside centre, Adams is probably going to have to soak up contact time and time again, buying his team-mates crucial seconds to reset and realign in defence.
That's not an easy skill at 13, given how everything tends to hinge on you, but against Toulouse, Adams showed he knows when to push up and when to check his feet.
There's not a great deal of difference in how Adams will attack either.
He might be asked to do more gainline work from set-pieces, as shown by how often they used him on an inside crashball against South Africa, and Pivac and Stephen Jones might try to use him as a receiving option on forward tip-on passes to throw some variety into Wales' attack in the middle third of the pitch.
But, ultimately, not much will change.
What's more fascinating is Pivac's ambition to get as many dangerous strike-runners into his backline as possible.
You could argue there are few outstanding candidates for the 13 jersey, but there's the sense, with how Pivac wants his Wales team to play, that flooding the wider channels with his best strike-runners is too hard to resist.
If Wales can maintain bodies on their feet and clearout efficiency, the goal for Pivac's Wales will be an attacking pattern where, on whatever phase they're at, they have options capable of breaking down defences.
Last year, that meant pushing the ball from touchline to touchline on early phases through playmaking forwards like Justin Tipuric and Taulupe Faletau to get the ball into the hands of Liam Williams, Louis Rees-Zammit and Adams.
With those two forwards missing, they might have to get creative with how they manage it, but ultimately Pivac wants his back-three - and then his 13 beyond that - to be working closely in tandem.
So many tries were created last year through Williams, Adams and Johnny McNicholl working closely together after Wales had manipulated the defence through multiple phases. Particularly in the Six Nations, it was a pretty sophisticated, refined attacking system.
But it wasn't just the back-three. Louis Rees-Zammit's try against Ireland came from North, Leigh Halfpenny and Rees-Zammit combining down the blindside.
Heading into the Six Nations, if Pivac can find a way to fit Adams, Williams, Rees-Zammit and McNicholl into his backline - especially given the extra dimension the latter gives not only as a counter-attacking full-back, but as a playmaking option at first-receiver - with either Jonathan Davies or Willis Halaholo providing what is needed at 12, that could be something the Wales coach cannot help but resist diving into head first.
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