It is known Grimes likes guys that can move, get to the next level. I know I often use Todd McClure when talking about an older guy playing a number of years in the NFL, going against guys that are younger, stronger, faster. Technique, has so much to do with OL. Some of the better OL in the NFL, don't match up. Jason Peters is in the 6'4" range, kind of short for the OT position. Orlando Franklin is 6'7" playing OG, kind of tall. USCW has a center thats 6'6", also kind of tall, Pocic plays the position at 6'7". Like I always say, you can play football or you can't. Grimes is a great OL coach, at one time Mack Brown wanted him at UT, and was to make Grimes the highest paid OL coach in college football. We are getting players and depth like never before at LSU on the OL. I said last year after Grimes was hired, from 2000 to present, we have only had 5 OL drafted in the NFL. I said in the next 2-3 years we should have that many. La'el was one that should have went in the first round. But look out next year, Hawk, Alexander, Pocic and Boutte are all going to be playing on Sundays. Just depends on when they leave LSU. Clapp is another, a few years at the position, he too has the size to play in the NFL. I got to watch him in the spring game, I can see why Grimes wants Pocic at OG. Keep an eye on Maea Teuhema, at 6'5" 327#'s, they are working him at a backup position. Okeke is another, they want him at OT. All of the TF are looking well. Adrain Magee was signed at 366#'s, he lost some of the baby fat and is now down to 324, yep a loss of 42lbs.
I just found this write-up...I often talk about the Phone Booth, Grimes uses it too. Where will they play? LSU OL coach Jeff Grimes cross-training freshman linemen Maea Teuhema might be a guard, Toby Weathersby could end up at center, and Chidi Valentine-Okeke may be headed for the tackle spot. No LSU position group saw a bigger influx in rookies than coach Jeff Grimes and the offensive line. The coach is still in the process of figuring out where to play at least four of the five freshmen. He’s cross-training four of the rookies, rotating them at guard, tackle and even center. George Brown, a 6-foot-7, 283-pounder, is the only freshman Grimes has pegged in a position: tackle. Decisions on the others, though, could be coming soon. “It’s a little bit challenging right now because they really don’t know what they’re doing, and so when you’re moving them around, it’s hard for them to really show their true ability,” Grimes said Sunday. “But there’s no other way for me to know until I see them do it. This next week or so I think we’ll begin settling them into one position or one side.” The freshmen group could make an immediate mark for the Tigers. Grimes said “two or three” of them could end up in the two-deep depth chart and travel with the team to away games. He wouldn’t identify the two or three to avoid singling out any players. One of them likely includes Teuhema, a 6-foot-5, 327-pounder who ranked as high as the No. 1 offensive guard in the nation in the 2015 class. He was the only freshman offensive linemen to practice with the veterans during the Tigers’ split-squad practice days early in camp. Weathersby, 6-5, 292, is another signee ranked nationally as a top 10 tackle in the class. Both players have been working at guard and tackle. Teuhema has primarily played guard the past two days of practice, Grimes said. Weathersby has been snapping some. “He’s a little bit unusual,” Grimes said of Weathersby. “He could play guard or tackle. We’ve also started teaching him how to snap the football. Down the road, he could end up being a center as well. Got great strength in short area and quickness. Kind of guy you’d like to really have if you were in a fight in a phone booth.”
