Texas' OL Phenomenal Pass Protection

[chefbeezy]

I don't know if it was already mentioned but I found some crazy stats regarding our OL currently through two games on PFF.

One being that a Dylan Sikorski is currently rated #2 in the entire country for his pass blocking grade. Goosby follows shortly after at #16.

The other being that the Texas OL is rated #1 in the entire country, cumulatively, for pass blocking so far. 

Sikorski was a consensus three star portal prospect, ranking anywhere from the 50s to the 100s at IOL and anywhere from the 500s to the 1000s overall. Seems to be an actual snipe of a target and even better that he has two years (I believe) of eligibility left, although if he keeps playing like this we might struggle to keep him from the draft funnily enough.

Our run blocking, no surprise, is significantly worse. But, we could all see it do far better in the second half against OSU. Jordan Coleman is rated the best run blocker on our OL currently (although he so far has the worst pass blocking grade by a significant margin). However, we can all tell that Jordan is a dog and I'm very excited about his future.

Regardless, an extreme turn around for our OL. It seems like throwing the kitchen sink at portal targets over the off season has helped us a lot and might need to be more of a norm moving forward. That was also spurned by a large crop failure of OL recruits beforehand, and we have a lot to look forward to past Jordan in Jackson Christian, John Turntine and now Ismael Camara. Yet, a steady dose of deeper OL portal targets cannot hurt (considering that high level OL seems to be the hardest to get out of the portal and with mixed results).

Edited 55 minutes ago by chefbeezy

[HookemDTX]

35 minutes ago, chefbeezy said:

I don't know if it was already mentioned but I found some crazy stats regarding our OL currently through two games on PFF.

One being that a Dylan Sikorski is currently rated #2 in the entire country for his pass blocking grade. Goosby follows shortly after at #16.

The other being that the Texas OL is rated #1 in the entire country, cumulatively, for pass blocking so far. 

Sikorski was a consensus three star portal prospect, ranking anywhere from the 50s to the 100s at IOL and anywhere from the 500s to the 1000s overall. Seems to be an actual snipe of a target and even better that he has two years (I believe) of eligibility left, although if he keeps playing like this we might struggle to keep him from the draft funnily enough.

Our run blocking, no surprise, is significantly worse. But, we could all see it do far better in the second half against OSU. Jordan Coleman is rated the best run blocker on our OL currently (although he so far has the worst pass blocking grade by a significant margin). However, we can all tell that Jordan is a dog and I'm very excited about his future.

Regardless, an extreme turn around for our OL. It seems like throwing the kitchen sink at portal targets over the off season has helped us a lot and might need to be more of a norm moving forward. That was also spurned by a large crop failure of OL recruits beforehand, and we have a lot to look forward to past Jordan in Jackson Christian, John Turntine and now Ismael Camara. Yet, a steady dose of deeper OL portal targets cannot hurt (considering that high level OL seems to be the hardest to get out of the portal and with mixed results).

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