I do trust Rudolph and you just leave it up to him but you could tell from the get-go he loved Knapp on a personal level that may potentially distort his decision making. He recruited him to wherever we got Rudolph from then Knapp came across with him.
He will be back in October
Because they moved all those possible replacements to guard during fall camp … Lamberts, Black, and Absher … presumably so nobody would challenge Knapp at LT. 🤔
Exactly
Wagner needs to be better but I don't really think you can sit a returning starter captain for a guy who has never played a down of college football.
You can if that captain isn't cutting it, I mean he might look great against undersized teams but Knapp or Wagner neither are getting drafted to play tackle in the NFL. Their best shot is playing inside. The best tackle prospects we have on the team are Black, Jagusah and Lambert
Cool. Let’s start a true frosh at RT in hopes he’s better than the starter from last year? Touch grass man. Life’s hard and worrying about a game and which changes to make, that you have zero control over makes it harder.
I agree with this, but I would take it a step further. I would put Knapp at RG. And I would do it today. That way the right side may be undersized, but should be quicker. It might not be completely optimal, but it would allow us to run more speed and movement based plays to the right and more power oriented plays to the left. It gives away obvious tendencies, but that is where an OC worth their weight finds ways to exploit the defense knowing the tendencies.
We started a 3 star Freshman at LT last year so why couldn't we start a 5 star Freshman LT this year? A lot of experts said Black would be hard to keep off the field this year you can't tell me he is any worse than what we saw Sunday, I'm not only thinking about this year I'm thinking about the next 2-3 years while Carr is our QB
Yes, that's how real life works.
