Some answers on the offensive line depth chart
Right now the Sooners’ offensive line depth chart resembles my NCAA basketball bracket with red lines drawn through names left and right and arrows pointing players into new positions. One might forget, considering the group won the Joe Moore Award, that the Sooners’ offensive line took nearly half the year last year to live up to its massive potential. It really wasn’t until the Texas game that we saw the group really come together and become the road graters they would be for the rest of the year.
With the Sooners breaking in a new quarterback it will be essential to have a running game to lean on and with the Sooners penchant for pulling and trap plays, the running game relies heavily on chemistry from the guys up front.
We know that Creed Humphrey is the guy at center. He’ll probably be a Remington finalist at some point during his career at Oklahoma, but his absence means guys are covering his position, setting in motion a sort of musical chairs approach to the offensive line so far.
Perhaps not surprisingly, things didn’t get off to an ideal start this year, but they have gotten better.
“The first day was really bad,” Bedenbaugh said to the Norman Transcript. “From the first day to right now, it’s really, really improved a bunch. But then again, we really didn’t have a great starting point.”
With a couple of weeks left before the end of spring ball, there will not be a set-in-stone offensive line depth chart when Oklahoma football packs up the pads for the summer, but the program can hope for a clear enough picture for things to be settled come the fall.