Tag: O-line U

Pro Football Focus ranks Notre Dame’s offensive tackles among the best

That’s an impressive pair

The Irish have long been in the conversation for “[autotag]O-Line U[/autotag]” and every year their argument gets stronger and stronger. Not only do the Irish have one of the best centers in the country in [autotag]Jarrett Patterson[/autotag], the presumed starting offensive tackles are among the best in the country as well.

Pro Football Focus ranked the Top 25 OT’s in the country and both [autotag]Blake Fisher[/autotag] and [autotag]Joe Alt[/autotag] were on their list. Fisher checked in first, at 10th, even though he is coming off an injury last year that took away most of his season. Alt was ranked just a few behind Fisher at 14th, making the pair one of three teams, Ohio State and Miami (FL), to have both their tackles ranked inside the Top 15 by PFF.

Anthony Treash goes a bit more in depth on their selection of Fisher, as he was named one of their “biggest projections” mainly due to his knee injury. Treash believes that Fisher “has the chance to establish himself as the next great blocker up front for the team as a starter at right tackle this fall.”

If you want to get nit-picky, Alt probably should be ranked above Fisher due to his exploits last year but having both starting tackles on this list is still very impressive. These two will be around through at least the end of next season, as both of them are second-year players.

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Ohio State in top five of Sports Illustrated’s O-Line U

Ohio State football has churned out more offensive lineman to the NFL than any other team since 2010. Was that enough to dub it O-Line U?

With the absence of sports here lately because of the COVID-19 health crisis, there have been enough lists and rankings articles circle the internet to make your head spin. But hey, we all need something to read up on correct?

Sports Illustrated is going through a series of naming each school they believe is the leader in churning out various positions. One of those such lists is the offensive line. And while we’ve seen quite a few Buckeyes go to the NFL from down in the trenches, you might be a little surprised on how many.

In fact, since 2010, Ohio State leads all schools in sending players to the NFL with 16. That’s two ahead of the second-place school Wisconsin, but that’s not enough to be named O-line U, not according to Sports Illustrated.

No, SI used a scoring method that weighted accomplishments once in the league on top of an absolute value of players drafted. You can read up on that scoring method yourself, but what’s important to note is that the Buckeyes came four spots away from being named the mythical modern-day O-Line U.

Somewhat surprisingly, Notre Dame took the prize, followed by Wisconsin (2), Florida (3), and Alabama (4). Rounding out the top ten after OSU was USC, Oklahoma, Iowa, Texas A&M, and Stanford.

At some point, it would be fun to total up all of these position groups to determine what program is the king of all positions. I don’t know what you’d call it (College Football U?), but Ohio State has to be up there since it ranks high in almost every single position group out there.

Stay tuned on that one.

 

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