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C Mays / LT Christensen LT vs C Christensen / LT Ekwonu

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You keep him at LT and extend Brady.  Brady at center next year, worst case.  Moton has one more year on his contract.  Keep drafting linemen every year for depth and another starter if necessary.  This is a good problem to have.  Either Icky gets better at picking up speed rushers or we are prepared for the future with moving him to RT and plugging in BC or another draft pick.

I'm more in favor of giving guys with a lot of talent the time to learn and get better, especially if we can keep the same system for more than one year.

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16 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

I'm curious whether one of those guards can play right tackle.

I think this is basically just tinkering with no possible good end result. If you wanted to try for that in the offseason, I would be fine with that but if you don't like Ekwonu's feet at LT, you REALLY aren't going to like Hunt/Lewis, IMO.

A smarter move would be to eventually shoot for an eventual move for Ikey to RT when Moton retires/moves on and then get a good(needs to be better) LT in the draft.

At least if you go that route you are planning for the future.

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