OL recruiting getting interesting
December 8th, 2016 at 3:55 PM ^
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December 8th, 2016 at 3:59 PM ^
Some of these recruits might find themselves unemployed.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:27 PM ^
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December 8th, 2016 at 4:29 PM ^
December 8th, 2016 at 4:33 PM ^
We probably can't "lower" them either.
December 8th, 2016 at 5:06 PM ^
Lots of tackles in this group...how many of them could move to the interior?
December 8th, 2016 at 6:14 PM ^
December 8th, 2016 at 4:19 PM ^
He's using the Decabet. Watch and Learn!
December 8th, 2016 at 4:03 PM ^
I'd be willing to gander that you're using speech to text, otherwise there's no way in hell you spell higher like that.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:29 PM ^
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December 8th, 2016 at 5:23 PM ^
You'd B core etc
December 8th, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^
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December 8th, 2016 at 4:36 PM ^
wolverine is an angeline.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:28 PM ^
Trey Smith is hire rated.
December 8th, 2016 at 11:43 PM ^
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December 8th, 2016 at 4:15 PM ^
I don't slaton is really being pursued that aggressively anymore because of some logistic stuff regarding tests.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:34 PM ^
December 8th, 2016 at 9:43 PM ^
He is probably not going to be here. 8 is fine though. Ruiz is important. A good center helps immensely.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:03 PM ^
But will the 8 take us?
December 8th, 2016 at 4:15 PM ^
December 8th, 2016 at 4:17 PM ^
And play all eight of them at the same time.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:24 PM ^
to make sure it wasn't one of those fancy photoshopped haha Harbaugh lines. Wow, that's a lot of beef.
December 8th, 2016 at 6:06 PM ^
In the interest of full disclosure, that screen grab is from a game during the Shaw era. But I think we all know where Shaw learned that kind of formation.
December 8th, 2016 at 3:57 PM ^
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December 8th, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^
Kai-Hebert is no slouch either. and the two east coast guys look like they have upside too. High quality problem.
December 8th, 2016 at 10:06 PM ^
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I'm tired of having an inferior OL
December 8th, 2016 at 4:02 PM ^
Highly rated WRs and RBs seem to have a much higher hit rate (i.e. perform in line with starz) than OL. Makes sense to target fewer but more highly rated skill position guys and load up on the positions where it's more hit-and-miss.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:12 PM ^
I think that's because it's hard to project their abiity to put on "good" weight as they mature. Most skill position players enter and leave school about the same weight (well....except for Derrick Green) but the average linemen's body changes a LOT during the five years they're in school.
That's why most OL redshirt IMO. And if you want to see wild before and after pics look at O lineman when they enter at 18 vs when they leave at 22. Night and day difference in their body mass. And the net effect of those changes is a challenge to project in many cases.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:16 PM ^
put on good height too.
December 8th, 2016 at 5:11 PM ^
that with an olineman his dominance in high school is often because he is much bigger and stronger than a lot of the guys he's playing against. He's dominating often times by sheer strength and mass, which won't happen much in college. Once in college he needs to be able to learn the technical aspects of the oline: footwork, hand placement, etc. If a guy can't master or become really proficient at the technical aspects of oline play, he's probably not going to see the field much in college.
December 8th, 2016 at 10:34 PM ^
December 8th, 2016 at 4:13 PM ^
I consider lineman to be a "rare beast" therefore at a premium to basically every other position on the field sans maybe and yes I mean maybe QB.
The good Lord just does not make but a very small % of humans of the size to play D or O line at the D1 level.
The size required alone eliminates what? 98% of the humans alive right now? maybe more?
Give me GREAT, not good but GREAT line play and I'll take 3 star RB's, QB's and WR's all day.
Vice versa and, well thats not gonna work out so good. Jibreel Peppers & Jordan Lewis with a mid average or crap D-line? you got nothing.
Leonard Fornette, Baker Mayfield & Curtiss Samuel with a crap or even mid grade O-line? Yeah good luck with that.
Spend that majority of your recruiting on Line IMHO and Thomas Rawls/Drake Johnson types will be just fine for me.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:19 PM ^
It's Jabrill and Jourdan, FYI
smh
December 8th, 2016 at 4:23 PM ^
December 8th, 2016 at 4:38 PM ^
Maybe a great OL is more important that a great QB. But that QB is still your single most important player. You can move players along the OL to cover some recruiting misses or depth issues. The marginal value of one player on the line doesn't compare to the difference between a good QB and one that isn't ready (or never will be).
December 8th, 2016 at 4:24 PM ^
I believe the general consensus, as I found out the hard way this week, is that the OL is "mediocre."
Thank you very much. I'll be here all week.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:25 PM ^
take 8 or 9 top OL this year and let them sort it out when they get to campus. Find the 5 best we have and make a road grading OL like never seen before! I think that is what Harbaugh is thinking. With an OL coach like Dreveno, give him as much talent as possible and then the offense will be unstoppable.
December 8th, 2016 at 5:08 PM ^
a couple of those guys can contribute right away so we can stagger that OL class a bit.
December 8th, 2016 at 6:26 PM ^
I know numbers are low. Are most of our commits/recruits interchangeable at guard and tackle?
Ruiz: C
Filiaga - OT
Wilson - OT
December 8th, 2016 at 7:20 PM ^
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December 8th, 2016 at 4:01 PM ^
Sam actually stated at one point that he had a gut feeling that the staff would be willing to take up to nine (9) offensive linemen, assuming some of those are two-way prospects.
December 8th, 2016 at 4:09 PM ^
To include Sam Webb and not mention gut feeling? What about like a leg feeling? Or he's getting a feeling in his scapula?