The OL should look good this coming year giving 6 of the top 8 lineman return including starters at every position...What is tough to swallow is how bad we look from year to year when we have to rebuild. We really need Meyers, Kelton, and Wes Harris all to be make drastic steps forward and be beast. If the only thing we ever get out of RFR and Sophs OL is a warm body then the line is going to drastically suck every other year. I know young OL players need time to grow but I think having a guy you can count on as a Soph isn’t expecting to much. At that point most have been in the program for 2 years. We need to build quality talent and depth and hope that we can hit on a young guy who can turn into an all conference type early..
thomsen was only in year 2 last year and that isn't a great deal of time to impact recruiting and the development of the roster.
i do think austin meyers did a number of positive things last year and if we get that level of play out of a couple of young offensive linemen in 2019 that is a positive sign for this area of the program
wes harris played d-tackle as a senior at aledo, got hurt as a freshmen at tcu missing a great deal of time, started slowly last year, but did some very good things at the end of the year
kelton really struggled mid year and the most disappointing part was it look so long to make a switch at center. not sure the story, but gaynor's play in the last two games in a large part saved those final two games for the offense
i have posted here a number of times that interior line has had a number of misses in recruiting for a variety of reasons spread over a three class time period and we still aren't caught up in regards to experience in that area.