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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3521984, member: 27"]
We have had years when a specific unit really got hit hard with injuries.

One year we had our first 4 or 5 RBs all hurt at the same time, and ended up using Diamond Ferri, who started at safety, as the primary RB.  That was the game he went crazy against his hometown team (BC), leading Syracuse to an unlikely end of season win that made the handful of BC students that went to the game cry on their sombreros (I think they were going to the Fiesta Bowl had they won).

Another year almost our our experienced linebackers got hurt and we had some really young players forced into action.  Off the top of my head, I think Nate Hensley was one of them.

Another year, most of our DEs got hurt and we ended up moving an inexperienced outside linebacker, Duke Pettijohn to DE.  He ended up thriving there and had a terrific career as a DE.

We have had some bad years with injuries and attrition with the OL.  But I can’t remember a year as brutal as this one for this unit.

Our two deep probably should have looked something like this:

LT Servais/Red
LG D Davis/P Davis
C Vetterello/Ilaoa
RG Bleich/Tisdale
RT Bergeron/Petry

That is a pretty solid OL.  I think it would be at least average in the ACC and perhaps a bit above average.

But Dakota gets hurt.  Pat Davis gets hurt.  Froumy, who would be the next guy, also gets hurt.  Bleich is hurt (and also ineligible because the NCAA gets confused by shiny objects).

Red was our only backup OT reasonably ready to play and he got hurt, so moving an OT to OG was not an option.  Our backup C is a true frosh with no experience, so moving his is not really an option either.

We were forced to move a fullback (Elmore) to OG.

It has been an unbelievable stretch of bad luck.  What a shame.
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