How/when does the o-line get fixed?

"Well until we get the o-line rebuilt..."


That's the line I keep reading. So what's the timeline for that happening and who are the personnel needed to do it?

The current personnel:

LT Will Campbell Fr.
LG Garrett Dellinger So.
C Charles Turner Jr.
RG Anthony Bradford Jr.
RT Emory Jones Fr.


So feasibly, all of this year's starters could return next season and potentially beyond if Turner/Bradford take full advantage of their redshirt/covid years. Obviously Campbell and Jones look cemented in for the next couple of years. Are Dellinger, Turner and Bradford with this year's experience enough to make you optimistic about next season?

Looking back over the recruiting classes, we're not really waiting for 2022 to develop as Campbell and Jones were the OL gems of that class and they're already playing. Bo Bordelon was in that class as well. 2020 brought in Dellinger and Kimo Makaneole. 2019 was 5 star Kardell Thomas, Bradford, Ray Parker, Thomas Perry and Turner.

Looking forward, the 2023 recruiting class has a top prospect Tackle committed in Lance Heard. Plus Tyree Adams and Paul Mubenga. Well see what we have in Heard but true freshman coming in to start right away is the exception so I wouldn't count on him next year. Heard is likely a tackle and may end up moving Jones to the interior where he played in HS.


So that's what we've got and what's coming. The current starters are likely the best of what's available to us and likely what well see next year too. We don't really have any starting caliber prospects waiting on the bench to step in. And you see what the o-line transfer portal gets you. O-line is a position where the best find an opportunity to play so you don't really see the highest level o-line talent stuck on the bench and transferring. We went out and got 2 of the best lower conference portal lineman available and they've turned into rotational depth.