Riley Reiff

[CJD]

(04-17-2021, 06:42 PM)Joelist Wrote: The big weakness of the line is the horror story behind the starters. Both Jordan and Reiff are legit NFL starting Tackles, ditto XSF and Spain are legit NFL starting caliber Guards. Trey is good for Center. The problem is behind them we have garbage like MJ and Redmond and unproven late round or UFDA like Johnson and Adeniji.

We have to dip at least twice in this draft at OL, and preferably Guards both times. Then cut Jordan and Redmond and under no circumstances bring them back.

This my biggest thing too. Williams and Reiff make up a good, dare I say above average, pair of starting tackles. The problem is Williams is injury prone and coming off an injury this coming season. We can't really expect him to remain healthy at this point. If we assume he'll miss 4 to 6 games this year, who is our LT during those times? 

Reiff hasn't historically had many injury problems, but you could ask the same question at RT.

And both guard spots.

And then at center we're already playing our back up in Price to start the year (most likely, anyway), so to say we have no depth behind him would be an understatement.

When you have an offensive line this thin such that a single injury ruins your entire strategy, I'd say you absolutely need to prioritize that posiiton in the draft. 

I don't mind if we go Chase as long as our 2nd and 3rd round picks are Olinemen (or maybe 2nd and 4th if you see a really good pass rusher drop to the third round). I'd prefer we guarantee the blue chip prospect at OT in the first but understand that we're likely going Chase at this point so I've made peace with that. But we need at least 2 new Olinemen by the end of the 5th round, in my opinion.