2025 Draft: Interior Offensive Line

[mgteich]

Big question. If he figures out center, Bradbury becomes the backup.

Will Sow go back to his natural LG and get his head screwed on right?

Rookie-Sow-Strange-Onwenu-Moses

Could work.

The draft is about developing the future.

If Strange and Sow are our best, we should be drafting an IOL in the 3rd. I suspect that one or both of Strange and Sow will be gone after the season, and I don't see Robinson as so good a prospect at starting LG that we don't need to draft one.

 

[captain stone]

The draft is about developing the future.

It's also about filling holes in the present, especially during the first two/early-third days, i.e.: at WR & LT.

If Strange and Sow are our best, we should be drafting an IOL in the 3rd. I suspect that one or both of Strange and Sow will be gone after the season, and I don't see Robinson as so good a prospect at starting LG that we don't need to draft one.

Plenty enough resources have been spent on the IOL as it is. Even while acknowledging the great value Wilson provided at 95, I still feel that this should've been the year to take a break from that and focus on LT. Drafting Seth McLaughlin as Mister Irrelevant, giving him a medical red-shirt year, and signing Drake Maye's bud Willie Lampkin IMMEDIATELY after the draft and be done with it is how I would've gone.

I do agree with your take on Laydown Robinson however: dude's NOT a Left Guard under Any circumstances, starting or otherwise.

 

[State]

Plenty enough resources have been spent on the IOL as it is. Even while acknowledging the great value Wilson provided at 95, I still feel that this should've been the year to take a break from that and focus on LT. Drafting Seth McLaughlin as Mister Irrelevant, giving him a medical red-shirt year, and signing Drake Maye's bud Willie Lampkin IMMEDIATELY after the draft and be done with it is how I would've gone.

I find this a compelling discussion. Charles Grant at 95? The LT from William & Mary with the whole package except development. I would feel a lot better about the OL.

Seth McLaughlin would have made the PERFECT Mr. Irrelevant.

 

[dliverey44]

I find this a compelling discussion. Charles Grant at 95? The LT from William & Mary with the whole package except development. I would feel a lot better about the OL.

Seth McLaughlin would have made the PERFECT Mr. Irrelevant.

I liked Grant as a developmental OT, but he is super raw and imo that is way too early to take a developmental piece like that. I like McLaughlin as well and agree with you.

 

[captain stone]

I find this a compelling discussion. Charles Grant at 95? The LT from William & Mary with the whole package except development. I would feel a lot better about the OL.

Seth McLaughlin would have made the PERFECT Mr. Irrelevant.

I liked Grant as a developmental OT, but he is super raw and imo that is way too early to take a developmental piece like that. I like McLaughlin as well and agree with you.

I knew that we weren't taking another OT that high; and once Grant was picked at 98 there was nobody remaining in that range whom I liked anyway: Jalen Travis is really big, and athletic, and smart, but he's also really raw too; and Caleb Rogers, the Faiduhs other OLman pick, won't be able to stay at OT in the NFL, similar to somebody else I know...