Jake Rowe takes a first stab at a post-signing day depth chart for the offense. I wouldn’t say there are any huge surprises there. Just a few bullet point observations:
- Newman and McKitty are penciled in as the starters at their respective positions. If they don’t make it so by the time September rolls around, I hope it’s because the roster is really that deep at QB and TE.
- Georgia is incredibly young at left tackle. Of the five names listed, only Condon isn’t a freshman or redshirt freshman.
- As far as the o-line goes, generally speaking, it sure looks like there will be a huge game of musical chairs going on to sort out the two-deep — more particularly, who will be playing where.
- It’s pretty obvious some of the incoming wideouts in this class are going to make the two-deep.
- In terms of an established hierarchy, running back is probably the most stable position group.
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I hope the youth in the LT position doesn’t prove to be the chink in the armor early on…
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Made me a little nervous seeing that, tbh.
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Andrew Thomas may have been the exception….could be another jewel in that two deep pile
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Didn’t Theus start at tackle as a freshman?
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Started at RT. Sturdivant the only true frosh to start LT in my memory, I think.
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AKA Mr. false start. I think he set the record for those.
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Truth.
But maybe Newman can roll away from a speed rush from that side. He won’t be throwing across his body….
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This OL group still makes Wake’s OL look like little sisters of the poor. I think Newman will be fine.
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Cook not listed on the 4-deep At RB.
🤔
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He’s at 2, with McIntosh.
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Reading is fundamental 🙃
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Comprehension is nonoocnic for some of us! 😬
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No picnic!
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Thanks, was just about to google “Define nonoocnic”
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We have a lot riding on Blaylock’s recovery.
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LT definitely worries me but Andrew Thomas stepped in like he’d always been there. I don’t really expect another AT but hopefully one of these guys will separate themselves, even if it’s Jones. Luke has always liked the athletic guys and Jones definitely fits the bill. I am surprised we haven’t seen Truss more but maybe he’ll make a play.
Also, I kinda wish one of these two elite centers we’ve gotten over the last two seasons would take that job and we could maybe move Hill back to guard. Hill still had snap issues this past season. I guess much of it depends on Webb’s off the field issues and how van Pran works out.
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True, but Thomas started at RT as a freshman, and only slid over to LT after a year of playing.
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That’s why I’m a bit surprised about Wilson’s decision to leave after 2 years at right tackle. Left tackles get drafted highly and get paid the enormous bucks. Unless he was told you’re penciled in at RT, I would have thought he could have improved his draft stock with returning.
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I forgot that Isaiah Wynn was at LT his first year.
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We are certainly loaded at guard and center. It wouldn’t surprise me if we see an all-out competition to fill the LT spot. Though I think Truss or Condon might be good enough for the job. I can even see Hill moving to G or T, with Webb or Ericson becoming the starting center.
Overall there’s still plenty of talent. Gonna need some position coaches to up their game from 2019.
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I disagree a little about the “Cook needs to add weight” part. Play to his strengths with outside runs and pass-catching, don’t send him up the middle, and he’ll excel.
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Supposed to have been the year of Cade Mays. I hope we knock him into the goal posts. Over the fence. Into the parking lot. I don’t care if it meant missing a tackle on an RB. I want him to receive and become a message.
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WTH is wrong with that guy and whoever is advising him ? He could NOT have been more tee’d up for a big time, lucrative NFL audition in 2020.
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Well, after we savage his father so brutally during his recruiting visit, who can blame him. 😉
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TB..that question is a hanging curve ball.
(BR549)
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Now now, no finger pointing
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It wasn’t the whole finger was it? (No, it was the one next to it.)
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If Newman isn’t starting at QB I hope it’s because Mathis or Beck caught fire and took the job from him.
As for OL, we have enough talent. I hope they can settle on groupings early and let the guys get reps at one spot so they can grow/gel as a unit. “Better” is the enemy of “good enough” on the OL. Pick something and go with it.
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Coach Like will definitely earn his checks this spring, summer and fall.
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