To be clear, there is a talent issue, especially at tackle.
Tackle recruiting:
2018 Frank Fillip, Kary Kutch
2019 Valentin Senn, Nikko Pohahau, Jake Wiley (listed as an OG in recruiting databases)
2020 Jake Wray, Gerald Lichtenhan
2021 Max Wray
This is how you get a problem at left tackle, which is a pretty pivotal position on the field /s.
Kutch and Pohahau were always interior players, despite where the database listed them. Pohahau washed out immediately anyway.
A European kid like Senn had the deck stacked against him. You just can’t replicate the game in a place where it is just not played widely. Now gone.
Lichtenhan is a massive project, pun intended. Maybe he becomes a serviceable right tackle over time.
One Wray down, one to go.
Wiley was listed as an OG in the databases. Granted they don’t always get things right, but the fact that our starting LT was considered by some to not be an obvious tackle tells you something.
Fillip is fine. Coming off a to torn labrum, but he is a decent P5 starter when healthy.
There is a huge talent issue at tackle.