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The Real Marty · 03-31-2021, 08:22 AM

(03-31-2021, 08:08 AM)irontrooper83 Wrote: We have all read what Meyer and staff seem to think about the state of our OL and if that is true it appears unlikely they'll decide to address it early in the draft.

By all accounts this is a very good and deep OT class and there are quality OL on the board.

Looking at our OL situation, even if they say they like the OL, I think they should also start looking at the future.
We have had good interior OL play but as far as I'm concerned our starting OTs were among the worst in the league. That will improve if we manage to be closer in games with less obvious passing situations and better QB play...still I wouldn't bank on them suddenly getting that much better at pass protection when we'll need it.

On top of that, even if they like the OL as it is, most of our OL will hit FA at the end of the season: Cam Robinson is on the franchise tag, Norwell restructured and will be FA at the end of the year, Cann will be a FA, Shatley will be a FA (again, lol), Will Richardson will be a FA, Linder will reach the final year of his deal.
Obviously we can/will resign one or more of them eventually but still at the moment they are going to hit FA.
We will basically have only Linder, Taylor (who hasn't looked good at all) and Bartch who is still developing and that hopefully will take another step this season.

How do you expect the team to go attack the OL position during this draft?

And what would you do instead? Beside the top group of OTs are there other developmental players you are targeting in the mid-lower rounds? Not strictly offensive tackles but guards and centers too.

This is exactly what I said about a week ago in another post. As much as Meyer and Baalke seem to like our offensive line, they have to be cognizant of the fact that they are all on contracts that expire very soon- some of them in one year, some of them in 2 years. At the very least, we need to start up a pipeline of developmental offensive linemen.

That's what I would do. What do I expect them to do? I have no idea.