4 star OT Joshua Braun commits to UGA

This one should cause some emotional distress at GT and UF

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Look,what they did with Wilson.

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And Big Country.

Cleveland is a hulk these days

Expected this for a while. His interest in UF plateaued a while ago. Should be a good player at UGA.

the only real question moving forward now about UGA offensive line is how does the Pitt Boss keep all these 4-5 stars happy? I mean the Dawgs 2nd string Offensive Line is probably more talented than 70-80% of most other Power 5 O-Lines. Gotta keep the non-starters out of the portal.

OL is one position where redshirting makes a ton of sense and the personalities of OL in general are such that they are willing to take that time to bulk up and learn. OLinemen are great because they tend to be the most selfless guys on the team by nature; they are doing a thankless task so their QB and RBs can get the glory and often times with one of the hardest assignments both physically and mentally on the field.

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OL is one position where redshirting makes a ton of sense

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I remember one of the recruits a while back talking about something Pittman had pointed out relative to percentage of guys who end up with shoulder injuries in college relative to redshirting or something. It's such a hard jump, particularly in the SEC, that even the really highly rated guys can struggle to have success while remaining healthy.

We've been really fortunate with Andrew Thomas for sure.

We don't really do that though... And we have the depth. We really only rotate OL for a few reasons:
1) injury
2) blowout leads
3) in year 1 trying to figure out best fit (and a few times early in the season last year)

OL is so dependent on consistency that true "rotation" just doesn't happen there. What he *really* wants is a 2 deep so good that if you do *have* to make a change, there is no drop off. Secondarily, I'm sure he'd like for us to be up so much that we could swap out the OL, but with Fromm as the only viable QB, you can't afford to run the risk that your second best OL configuration gets him hurt.

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Every starter on the OL last year missed at least one game due to injury.

In fact, we were missing at least two starters for most of our key games in the SEC east.

Remarkable to have the depth such that we can withstand so many injuries there and not really miss a beat.

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Agreed. I was only objecting with the idea that we do it "so they can be rotated in and out throughout the entire game." Just not something we're likely to ever do intentionally. But we sure as hell want the depth to be *able* to do that given the fact that they will pretty routinely have to make substitutions for injury or otherwise.

So this is hypothetical but I don't see why we couldn't rotate.

If you have a 1A Line that practices and plays together they develop their own chemistry and become one unit.

Then you have your 1B line which does the same thing.

That way you're not plugging and subbing which would disrupt the Line chemistry but instead you have two dominant Units who are equals in talent and can be interchanged throughout the game giving the other Unit rest.

The only position which might not be able to be replaced is the C. But I believe it could work with the Guards and Tackles.

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some guys like Andrew Thomas, Isaiah Wynn, Lamont Gaillard, etc. that you never want to take out of the game unless they’re injured.

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understandable.

This discussion with no trolls was actually refreshing for once and for that I thank you @BranchDawg