Jackson Carman or Jonah Williams

[CJD]

Carman is a super small sample size, but he had really good pass protection grades in the two games he started.

A 76.0 pass blocking grade vs Buffalo and a 64.7 pass blocking grade vs KC.

Those grades comfortably led the team in both games.

I'd be happy to have him compete with Jonah in training camp and possibly replace him, but I'm not getting rid of Jonah early just because 2 games is not enough to know that Carman is definitely the better player.

Maybe they can try them both out at RT and see how they respond. My gut tells me that Carman would make a really good RT because he's big and hard to move. If he held up at LT, he should be even better at RT since the LT is generally the more athletic of the two tackles (although that distinction is disappearing over time since many team's don't dedicate their best pass rusher to RE anymore).

But then, he struggled with RG, so maybe he is just not good on the right side. It sounds absurd, but I've seen several offensive linemen say that playing left or right is just different. Like trying to golf with off hand clubs. I don't know how true that is, but there's a chance that Carman truly is just most comfortable at LT and, if so, and Jonah is capable of going to the right (I believe he played on that side in college for a bit), we may be wise to move Jonah to RT and keep Carman at LT.

I think Carman has the potential to be a long term starter, but we're just going to have to see how he comes into training camp.