Offensive Lineman in the 2010 NFL Draft
April 14th, 2010 | By boadurichard
Face it, the Offensive Line also known as the Big Uglies make offense go. If you can’t protect the quarterback long enough for him to get a pass downfield you’re not going to win. How many times do we see QBs get eons and eons of time and leave the game with clean jerseys and those teams normally win. If you can’t get a good push to run the ball you might not win. (The leauge has changed so much in recent years, remember when it was mandatory to run the ball to win games.) There are four major components of a good offensive line: Left Tackle, Guards, Center, and Right Tackle. The Left Tackle protects the QBs blind side. Third to QB and CB the LT is the most important position in football. He has to be a super athlete and he’s often times matched up one-on-one with the defense’s best pass rusher. The guards are like the terriers of the O-Line. They’re tenacious, smaller than tackles, and they are just quick annoying battlers that do what it takes to get the job done. Guards do need a great push at the point of attack so they can move bodies, they also must be athletic for pulling and overall just be warrior. The Center is CPU of the entire ship. He’s the QB of the O-Line, he makes all of the blitz calls and is the overall leader of the the line. The Right Tackle may not be as athletic as the left tackle but he’s definitely more physical. Most teams run the ball to the right making the right tackle extremely important.
The top two tackles in this year’s class are Trent Williams of Oklahoma and Russell Okung of Oklahoma State.
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