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Wow. The depth on the offensive line still looks like a disaster waiting to happen. It's just fugly.

LT
Matt Kalil
Kevin Murphy

LG
Charlie Johnson
Troy Kropog
Jeff Baca

C
John Sullivan
Joe Berger

RG
Brandon Fusco
Seth Olsen
Travis Bond

RT
Phil Loadholt
DeMarcus Love

why do you say that? Because it's a bunch of relatively unknowns? That's why their backups, you're not going to have a ton of starting caliber guys in backup roles. I'd say we're ok on the oline

Just for comparison's sake, go look at SF (who is widely believed to be the deepest team in football) and check out their offensive line depth. It doesn't look a whole lot better. You can't judge depth in a vacuum and say "oh man I don't know if I trust if we lose this game, that's bad depth".

I don't know that I'd qualify them as "relatively" unknown. Which of them have actually ever played in the NFL? Olsen and Berger? Hopefully we'll get to see something out of DeMarcus Love this year. And there's certainly plenty of room for the new guys, but the rest are practice squad rejects.

Eli wrote:I don't know that I'd qualify them as "relatively" unknown. Which of them have actually ever played in the NFL? Olsen and Berger? Hopefully we'll get to see something out of DeMarcus Love this year. And there's certainly plenty of room for the new guys, but the rest are practice squad rejects.

Generally only 8, maybe 9 of them make the final roster. Kevin Murphy is a young guys that's stuck on a few years. They were high on Kroprog last year after he worked his way up to the roster. Obviously Love is a guy we drafted. Olsen and Berger have experience and then we have the young guys. I'd say it's a pretty competitive group overall, and don't see it as a major issue at this point.