Final 2023 Offensive Line Rankings

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Part of the run game problem is indecisiveness on the part of the team both in committing to run and also what scheme to use. This was the latest of several seasons where we had to change the scheme during the season. Had we just decided on power gap running in preseason and stuck to it the numbers would look better because our linemen are pretty uniformly built for that type of attack.

Another part is sad to say the play of the backs. Perine was effective when he was used but Mixon basically had two good outings and a bunch of outings where he displayed poor vision and excessive dancing. If they REALLY want to make a good, consistent run game they need to say goodbye to Mixon and reload at RB.

Also, the injury problems at both tackle spots held us back all season. It's true that for the period when they were all somewhat healthy and had enough reps together to sync the pass protection in particular was actually upper tier. Then of course injuries intervened. On the good side we found to our surprise Carman may be a keeper - on the bad side it's pretty clear Adeniji is not. I tend to agree we need to draft a nice, big RT and probably also sign an OT in Free Agency.