He looks good on tape. Putting a number on OL is tricky in terms of stats or grades, but I typically see him ranked at top 7-10 for LTs. In terms of stats, probably the big one is 34 pressures out of 620 pass pro snaps for 5.8%.
Our OL in general played pretty damn good in '23 and is in a good place going into '24. The aggregate (off the top of my head) for grades was something like top-7/10 at LT, top-3 at LG, top-3/5 at C, and top-5/7 at RT. RG is our low man, but Fries still played pretty damn good, especially for a 7th rounder in his second year starting (competition with Goncalves is very interesting to me).
And I wish I could remember where I read these... but 1.) I saw a chart that showed Minshew was around bottom-5 for QBs being responsible for pressures. And 2.) another chart showed that only like 10 of the Colts 41 sacks last year fell solely on the OL.
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