I want to see Heard and Martinez in the starting lineup

DJ Chester is our next center.

As long as soft arse Frazier is out

Pretty sure Martinez is the 3rd string center now.

Heard is a road grader in run blocking. When he comes in you see a noticeable increase in productivity in the running game. He's sorta like Bradford was only Heard is a freshman which is scary to think about.

BK has already said Frazier is going to start but Heard will be in rotation with the 1s.

Word in the off season was Heard needed some grooming and wasn't a plug and play starter out of the gate like Campbell and Jones as freshmen. It's likely the right decision to bring him along and build his him up while not destroying Fraziers confidence.

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Z is listed at 340 lbs., lots of size for an OT.

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With a year or 2 of s&c he'll lean out and be stronger and faster at 315-320 and e an all american.

Campbell, Delly, Martinez, Jones, Heard

That's the 5 that should be starting

I agree. Martinez has played well whenever they ran him out there these past 2 years. He’s so much stronger at the point of attack than Turner and that’s big when you’re trying to move 330 lb nose tackles so you can run it up the middle which we haven’t done well so far against FSU. Grambling doesn’t count. Delly and Campbell have played fantastic but the right side is a liability. Frazier is a great 6th OL type guy but he’s not even average as an SEC starter. We are playing Emery Jones out of position also, he’s a guard in the NFL and he even knows it and is fine with moving inside to get Heard on the field. At least you know with those 5 guys there should be no reason why you can’t run the football.

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Heard is a road grader in run blocking

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We ran almost exclusively when he was in. I suspect the reason he isn’t starting is that he isn’t prepared to pass block.

I’m not sure I’d want him on the outskirts de but he can without a doubt play all 3 interior positions seamlessly. I do think Martinez played and maybe even started one game at LT. I can’t recall who we played but it was a few years ago. It feels like he’s been here forever. I knew he was 100% gone after spring when he wasn’t in the penciled in starting 5 but credit to him for sticking it out. Not many do these days because he can not only start but be some college’s best OL if he were to drop down a level to a group of 5 school. He’d be a starter for a good majority of power 5 programs.