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LMU93
It is. Last year 5 players made 11+ starts and 6 OL (including Brown) made 76 of the 80 starts. Let's hope for that again. The previous year 7 players combined for 76 starts- Brown and Wichmann shared RG and Reynolds (who I think they sorely missed last year) stepped in for Saffold. In 2014 6 players made all 80 starts. So that 6th and 7th man are typically very important.
Donnal has never done anything for me but we'll see. I think Eldrenkamp is a very interesting pro prospect.
Well 2014 is an exception, really, because once they lost Long, which was early, they had to monkey around with left OG after moving GR to LOT. On top of it Saffold and Wells played hurt much of the season to the point of requiring surgery after the season (Robinson too), (Wells for example had an elbow brace that sometimes caused him to misfire snaps.) So 2014 is deceptive. If that happened this year it would be as if they lost Whitworth, Saffold and Sullivan played hurt (to the point of it clearly diminishing their game and them also needing surgery after the season), Donnal moved to LOT, and so on. It was a beat up line in 2014.
In 2015, there were several injury replacements. In fact there was a spate of injuries and it took awhile for the OL to settle down again.
Myself, I would not count the 2014 and 2015 OLs as being relatively healthy.
2016 was a mess but the OL was less injured. But so many things went wrong in 2016 it's hard to see exactly what happened to the OL in its own right. But yes it was less injured than the norm from previous years.
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