re: Brian Kelly press conference notes | John Emery is back

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Zalance Heard will take a position from someone and either start or play....he is that dude

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I agree. Think that's why they're already trying Dellinger out at Center

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Hard to imagine the plan would be to start Dellinger at Center to make room for Heard without an injury to one or both of Turner and Martinez. Which is possible, so glad he’s cross-training there.

But go back and read that quote from BK about how important experience playing in the SEC is. We have an OL where all 5 have significant SEC starting experience. And the 2 most talented—Campbell and Jones—are the 2 youngest.

It’s just so different than last year. Even if Heard is better now than Will and Emory were a year ago, it’s just gonna be really hard for him to play his way into the starting lineup. Now he can play his way into the 6th or 7th guy and maybe be the 1st guy in if there’s an injury—and there’s always an injury, just a matter of time—and play so well that he never comes out, even when the injured guy gets back. But to just flat out take Delly or Frazier’s jobs or force Jones to move inside to free up RT for him, that would just be hard to see. He’d have to be incredible early. And he may be. We’ll see