As you now know, 4 are walkons who will never see the field. Andrew Mike was behind some walkons and true freshmen. He will never see the field. Dillard and Riles are terrible and should never be on an SEC teams depth chart.
The development rate for OL is always the worst of any position. It takes both brains and incredible braun. The get injured alot, some just in the weightroom. Altogether about half never see the field.
You have to recruit 5-6 per year. 4 is poor, 3 sbould be hotseat/dont do it again, and 2 should be fire the staff on the spot IMO.
Which po
sition do you think gets hurt the most? Linemen no doubt. Also, which positjon do you think is hardest to develop? HS OL dont come on campus ready to compete against SEC upperclassmen. If we need a LB conceivably we could convert a LB or TE. If we need a DB we can convert a WR (Chris Thompson seems the most obvious. Maybe he is good at hitting someone other than punters or returners who have signalled fair catch. Sousa and others obviously have no chance of seeig the field.) We have done so in the past with good success. Sabes?