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Message: [QUOTE="CbusCuse, post: 4631234, member: 507"] Typically Syracuse's season goes depending on the play and health of QB and OL. Assuming Shrader comes back fully healthy it seems we are good at QB heading into the season with potential in the back-ups who will get a lot of offseason snaps. So my main concerns for this season are OL and DB. OL is still a question mark for me. It may have a chance to be good but some things are still TBD. LT - I assume Cruz is guaranteed to start at LT after his 2022 season with five starts (three at right tackle, two at left tackle to end the season. According to Pro Football Focus, In 2022 he was responsible for just one sack allowed in 205 pass blocking snaps. He wont be 2nd round Bergeron good but I think he will perform admirably. Hopefully we can get 3 years of solid LT play out of him. RT - I'd expect the transfer Moore to fill in and be about as solid as what we had there last year considering he started 37 games for Richmond at Tackle. LG - I expect Ellis to start. From that pic above, Ellis does indeed looked to have lost weight. Nice! Think that should help his production as he has been playing a bit to heavy. In 2022 he played in 11 games with nine starts at left guard ... According to Pro Football Focus, allowed just one sack and nine total pressures in 267 pass blocking snaps on the season ... Started the first nine games of the season before having to miss the Pittsburgh (11/5), and Wake Forest (11/19) games due to injury. Also did not start and played limited snaps vs. Florida State (11/12 RG - Hopefully Bleich can start this season healthier than his usual and stay that way. In 2022 He stated 12 games at right guard ... Played 772 snaps and allowed just two sacks. Center - This is the biggest question mark of the OL unit. I think Illao has some potential but not positive if he is quite ready to be starting material and i think we need an upgrade here and at the very least more depth options. Having J'Onre Reed be deemed eligible would be huge in my opinion. I think he may be a better option and certainly would help with the depth. Depth - I mentioned J'Onre Reed above at the center position. At tackle, both Joe Cruz and Petry saw snaps in 3 games. Joe seeing snaps means the staff sees promise in him but both are undersized at around 280 lbs according to the 2022 roster. Hopefully they can add some more muscle this offseason. I think Bradford as a 6'-5" 302 lbs RS Jr should provide solid depth as a Guard and could possibly play Tackle. He had some snaps at the end of the year and even started against Wake. I think our depth at Tackle is pretty poor and this position is a weakness in general. Junior Juco transfer Lysander Moleolo at 6-6" and 360 lbs should add something to the depth. At that weight i'm guessing he will need to be a guard unless he drops some weight quickly. If we can add Reed to the mix and not have any injuries, the OL has a chance to be solid. But we all know that is not likely to happen. The OL is pretty thin on talent and I think we need to add more talent here. [/QUOTE]

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