A thought about Ogbuehi

[*wildcats forever*]

(12-30-2016, 05:12 PM)Bengal Dude Wrote: Agreed. If Ced stays at tackle, I think the best we can get from him would be a similar role to what Eric Winson does for us right now.


I'd like us to look somewhere else for a tackle, but I wouldn't fully give up on Ced. I'm hopeful this team will take Willie Anderson up on his offer to help Ced, but if they don't, I'd like them to see if he can play guard. He did a good job at A&M when they had Matthews and Joeckle playing tackle.

Winston's main contribution was experience/savvy/technique imho. None of which Ogbuehi possesses at this point. 

As for Ogbuehi at guard, I defer to what Whit said about the physical requirements for that position after he played it last week - “Guard is a whole other world,” Whitworth said. “It’s physical, banged up, a lot guys are bruised and battered. It’s a different style of football in there. It’s why you see a lot of guards who are big and heavy. Rhinoceros-built guys. That’s why you don’t see a lot of tall, rangy 6-7 guys in there.”


I'm thinking IF Ogbuehi makes it at all, it will be at LT. But it will take another year or two, backing up someone like Whit plus getting coached up like never before.  WTS, maybe he can build his body into the type Whit described, and succeed from there. Lapham does speak highly of him , from an athletically-gifted perspective. I'd have a better feeling about this IF we had staff to bring him along.