Bernhard Raiman

[jasperhobbs]

I don't get see many colts games a question avid colts followers, have the colts found their left tackle or is he just good enough to get by?

[Racehorse]

Most experts say he is the guy. Only going to get better, barring catastrophic injury.

[Dam8610]

This year will be his 5th or 6th year of organized football at any level, and he's already an average-good starter at LT. The trajectory is only pointing upward.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by jasperhobbs

I don't get see many colts games a question avid colts followers, have the colts found their left tackle or is he just good enough to get by?

His rookie years he finished as one of the best, if not the best, rookie tackle. I believe he has graded out as top ten since then. I would say they have hit a homerun.

[YDFL Commish]

IMO he was borderline great last year. He had his troubles with Trey Hendrickson last season. But that's understandable because almost every LT has that one guy that is their kryptonite.

For Tarik Glenn it was Jason Taylor. For Jonathon Ogden it was Dwight Freeney.
For Anthony Castonzo it was Robert Quinn.

[ChaosTheory]

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.

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

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).

I wouldn't overlook Bortolini either. I expect that Fries wins the RG spot, but at least there is now some healthy young competition for backup roles. We will have Bortolini, French, Pinter, Sills, Freeland, Witt and Congalves all competing for backup spots along with some other camp hopefuls. We aren't keeping 11 or even 9 OL...so it should be an interesting competition.