A waterbug like that is most effective with fresh legs.
Minimizing the grinding and pounding in camp might keep a little extra pep in his step to start the season and maybe even push the rookie wall back beyond Week 12 or so. And there's no way they're going to entrust him with more than the bare minimum of pick up duties, so he's not really missing out on much except the contact. And the less of that he gets, the better off I think he'll be.
gee, i just can't figure out why so many folks are sick of your chit.