The drop off at O line is really telling.
recruiting matters and you just can't stack 4 average to bad classes on top of each other in a place like the offensive line and not expect to see a drop off.
quick review of the 2013-2016 classes is pretty telling:
2013 - hit on 2 of 4
morris (multi-year contributor and on the steelers development roster)
fromayan (transferred out)
tunstill (never contributed)
pryor (mult-year contributor and on the eagles development roster)
2014 - 1 of 4 contributed
barrett - (transferred out)
kee - (transferred out)
griswold - (injury ended career)
elliott - (contributed senior season after fighting injuries most of his career)
2015 - hit on 1, contributions from a second out of 4
awolope - (transferred out)
bolisomi - (contributed senior senior)
milton - (injury ended career)
iwuagwu - (multiple year contributor)
2016 -hit on 1, contributor from a second out of 3
niang - (multiple-year contributor and nfl prospect)
myers - (multiple-year contributor)
hollins - (started most of last year and then has disappeared)
some kids get hurt, some kids don't get better, some kids transfer out, but you just can't go through a stretch like this and it not hurt the performance on the field. no different than what we have seen at defensive end and linebacker