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Will we have the manpower to win the trench warfare next season? I haven't kept up with who leaving and coming.

How many are we losing and how many are we gaining? Please tell me we are outfitting a bunch of 300 pound hard pipe hitting mother fuckers.

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Losing Banks (declared), Conner, Majors, and probably Cam Williams. It looks like DJ Campbell is returning. Goosby should be the LT. Two of Umeozulu, Hutson, and Campbell should start at guard. We are recruiting Emmanuel Pregnon out of the portal (6-5, 320 and very experienced). Hutson or Connor Robertson will likely be the starting center. Brandon Baker looks like he'll be the new RT.

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3 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Losing Banks (declared), Conner, Majors, and probably Cam Williams. It looks like DJ Campbell is returning. Goosby should be the LT. Two of Umeozulu, Hutson, and Campbell should start at guard. We are recruiting Emmanuel Pregnon out of the portal (6-5, 320 and very experienced). Hutson or Connor Robertson will likely be the starting center. Brandon Baker looks like he'll be the new RT.

Right now I am going

Goosby, Neto, Hutson, DJ, Baker... LG/Center are going to be dependent on each other. Whatever combo between Hutson, Neto, Robertson, and Cruz Flood feels is best.

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43 minutes ago, sidis said:

 

OLINE

 

Losing: Banks, Conner, Majors, Helm, and possibly Williams (likely) and Campbell (suddenly less likely).

 

Gaining: Nick Brooks (High School 4*), Jackson Christian (High School 3*), Jordan Coleman (High School 3*), Devin Coleman (High School 3*). No transfers as of today. I think there is one target but I think Flood is fairly happy with the stacked depth despite the lack of experience.

 

Putting aside injuries and any remaining portal changes over the next 8 months, I think most people imagine the starters at oline to look like:

 

    LT                      LG                       C                        RG                      RT                     TE

Goosby           Umeozulu             Hutson              Campbell              Baker            Washington

 

The guys that will likely contribute a ton in addition in (likely) order of importance IMO are Connor Robertson on the inside, Malik Agbo on the outside, Daniel Cruz on the inside, Stroh, Chatman, Kibble, and I expect Nick Brooks will play some.

 

Overall, we will likely see a slight drop in pass protection inevitably from the loss of experience. Debatable on the run game...we could possibly see some slight improvement there. On the plus side, we may see a 90% reduction in false starts if Williams does indeed leave.

 

DLINE

 

Losing: Collins, Broughton, Sorrell, Lole, Norton, Savea, Bryant (Transfer to Vandy), Finkley (Transfer to Kansas), Mitchell (Transfer to LSU), Bledsoe (Tranfer to MSU), and possibly Moore (not sure on this one). That's a lot of dudes.

 

Gaining: Travis Shaw (DT Transfer from UNC), Cole Brevard (DT Transfer from Purdue), Justus Terry (High School 5*), Lance Jackson (High School 5*/4*), Smith Orogbo (High School 4*), Myron Charles (High School 4*), and Josiah Sharma (High School 4*).

 

The concern here is that for the first time in three years, we won't have at least two 5 year guys at DT. We were incredibly fortunate to follow up Murphy and Sweat's phenomenal year with Collins and Broughton's fifth year in the program...along with adding three 4th/5th year guys from the portal. That is why teams have had such difficulty against us in the traditional run game for the last two years. lots of 23 year old dudes out there. Shaw and Brevard are both massive interior guys with one being a 5th year senior and one being a junior. That should help but we have no idea how they will fit in yet. A lot of expectation for Alex January in the middle as well but it will only be his second year. If Moore comes back, him, Colin Simmons, and Burke on the outside is pretty good shot of confidence along with Vasek. This freshman class is insanely talented and I would expect Terry, Charles, and Jackson to likely contribute.

 

Putting aside injuries and any remaining portal changes, I see it as:

 

     E                          DT                        DT                            E

Simmons               Shaw                   January              Burke/Moore (situational)

 

We will see on Shaw, January, and Brevard. I think you could consider that just a three man "starting" rotation. The guys contributing the most in addition in order IMO are Brevard, Vasek, Terry, Charles, Sharma, Jackson.

 

I am excited about talent at dline and I think we have a legitimate future top 5 pick at de in simmons but this will be the first time in a long time that we are not stacked with a huge rotation of experienced grown ass men in the middle in a while and I fear we may see the first relative success of traditional run game against us in a while. But a healthy and driven Simmons does make that a bit harder scheme wise. As does Moore and Burke. The recruiting nuts are going to be extremely excited about Justus Terry with good reason but 18 year olds at that position being dominant is rarely a thing. I suspect he will flash though.

Damn, I didn't realize we were losing so many from the D-line.

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11 hours ago, F250 said:

Will we have the manpower to win the trench warfare next season? I haven't kept up with who leaving and coming.

How many are we losing and how many are we gaining? Please tell me we are outfitting a bunch of 300 pound hard pipe hitting mother fuckers.

From everything I've read on surly, we're either in big trouble or we're fine.

Hope that clears things up.

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16 minutes ago, F250 said:

Damn, I didn't realize we were losing so many from the D-line.

it is a concern. we had great fortunes with the timing of four-five year guys in sweat, murphy, collins, sorrell, and broughton in 23 and 24...spelled with pretty quality transfer hits in trill carter, lole, norton.

now that has played out and all the guys between them and last year/this year's classes are gone so, other than the two transfers (as of now), we are extremely talented but young on the inside. if you have read the recruiting board for the last year (would not recommend), you would think our dline situation was the harbinger of the four horsemen of the apocalypse but the late get of justus terry made a lot of people calm down. i think we are very much on the lookout for another (if not two) interior dl in the portal if one worth taking reveals itself.

if moore comes back, we should have the best edge group we have had in a long fucking time though. simmons, moore, and burke are all nfl players (with simmons having the potential to be a fucking legend). and the linebacker group backing them up with hill, lefau, and tyanthony should be the best linebacker play in quite some time.

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1 hour ago, 4th and 5 said:

Cam needs to come back, he's not ready for Sunday football when his flashes match his fuckups

The 44th pick in last year's draft got a 4 year contract worth $8.767m with about a $3.2m signing bonus. He'll be fine.

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8 hours ago, futureman said:

connor stroh is the biggest strongest player on the roster and he’ll be a third-year player next season.  I hoped he’d pan out but maybe he will not. 

I think he will be a RS-Sophmore next season. Hopefully he will be a contributor next Fall.

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