A couple possibilities: Lyric Bartley, 6-3, 260, frosh, and Hunter Mattox, 6-3, 272, redshirt frosh (their height and weight on last season's depth chart).
How different are they, say, from a 6-4, 260-pound Xavier Cooper or a 6-3, 255-pound Destiny Vaeao when those two were freshmen? Cooper was about 300 when he left as a junior; Vaeao was right there as well. Both were 2-star recruits, significantly developed by Leach's S&C staff.. Both are in the NFL. Bartley and Mattox were rated higher and had more offers coming out of high school. And T.J. Fehoko, if he is still around, also was rated higher than both Cooper and Vaeao.
And 6-5, 260-pound sophomore Nick Begg is another possibility.
A legitimate question is this: are those three ready to contribute to the interior d-line next season, as in spelling Ekuale, Tapa, and McBroom?
How different are they, say, from a 6-4, 260-pound Xavier Cooper or a 6-3, 255-pound Destiny Vaeao when those two were freshmen? Cooper was about 300 when he left as a junior; Vaeao was right there as well. Both were 2-star recruits, significantly developed by Leach's S&C staff.. Both are in the NFL. Bartley and Mattox were rated higher and had more offers coming out of high school. And T.J. Fehoko, if he is still around, also was rated higher than both Cooper and Vaeao.
And 6-5, 260-pound sophomore Nick Begg is another possibility.
A legitimate question is this: are those three ready to contribute to the interior d-line next season, as in spelling Ekuale, Tapa, and McBroom?
