The Netter interview inspired me to want to look into who ACC teams have playing offensive line in 2024. Everybody currently on a roster (will probably want to adjust this summer for further transfers) who had 200+ snaps in 2023 ranked by PFF grade:
1) Brian Stevens (Virginia) - 77.0
2) Willie Lampkin (North Carolina) - 76.2
3) Darius Washington (Florida State) - 76.1
4) Ozzy Trapilo (Boston College) - 75.0
5) Jalen Rivers (Miami) - 74.1
6) DeVonte Gordon (Wake Forest) - 73.1
7) Blake Miller (Clemson) - 72.9
8) Luke Petitbon (Wake Forest) - 72.8
9) Matt Gulbin (Wake Forest) - 72.4
10) Logan Taylor (Boston College) - 71.6
11) Brian Parker II (Duke) - 70.8
12) Michael Gonzalez (Louisville) - 70.6
13) Drew Kendall (Boston College) - 70.3
14) Maurice Smith (Florida State) - 69.6
15) Joe Fusile (Georgia Tech) - 69.2
16) Monroe Mills (Louisville) - 68.3 at Texas Tech
17) Weston Franklin (Georgia Tech) - 68.2
18) Francis Mauigoa (Miami) - 68.1
19) Keiondre Jones (Florida State) - 67.9
20) Jeremiah Byers (Florida State) - 67.7
21) Jordan Williams (Georgia Tech) - 67.3
22) Marcus Tate (Clemson) - 67.0
23) Richie Leonard IV (Florida State) - 65.9 at Florida
23) Anez Cooper (Miami) - 65.9
23) Anthony Belton (NC State) - 65.9
26) Zach Carpenter (Miami) 65.3 at Indiana
27) Jacarrius Peak (NC State) - 64.9
28) Levi Rogers (Stanford) - 64.3
29) Connor McLaughlin (Stanford) - 63.9
30) TJ Session (Cal) - 63.7
30) Braelin Moore (Virginia Tech) - 63.7
32) Noah Josey (Virginia) - 63.1
33) Drake Metcalf (Virginia) - 63.0 at UCF
34) Justin Pickett (Duke) - 62.9
35) McKale Boley (Virginia) - 62.7
36) Kaden Moore (Virginia Tech) - 62.4
37) Xavier Chaplin (Virginia Tech) - 62.2
38) Zeke Correll (NC State) - 61.9 at Notre Dame
39) Jake Maikkula (Stanford) - 61.0
40) Renato Brown (Louisville) - 60.9
41) Bastian Swinney (Cal) - 60.7
41) Erik Russell (Wake Forest) - 60.7
43) Jack Conley (Boston College) - 60.1
43) Matthew Wykoff (Cal) - 60.1
45) Branson Taylor (Pitt) - 59.8
46) Tristan Leigh (Clemson) - 59.5
47) Parker Clements (Virginia Tech) - 59.3
48) Brody Meadows (Virginia Tech) - 58.7
49) George Sell (Wake Forest) - 58.4
50) Joe Cruz (Syracuse) - 58.3
51) Terrence Moore (Pitt) - 57.8
52) Timothy McKay (NC State) - 57.6
53) Anthony Carter Jr. (NC State) - 56.5
54) Corey Robinson II (Georgia Tech) - 56.4
55) Jakob Bradford (Syracuse) - 56.3
56) Mark Petry (Syracuse) - 55.7
57) Collin Sadler (Clemson) - 55.4
58) J'Onre Reed (Syracuse) - 55.3
59) Sioape Vatikani (Cal) - 54.6
60) Trevor Mayberry (Stanford) - 53.7
61) Austin Collins (Louisville) - 53.6
62) Reuben Unije (Louisville) - 53.3 at Houston
63) Simione Pale (Stanford) - 53.1
64) Bob Schick (Virginia Tech) - 52.8
65) Ethan Mackenny (Georgia Tech) - 52.6
66) Enrique Cruz Jr. (Syracuse) - 52.4
67) Trent Howard (Clemson) - 52.1
68) Harris Sewell (Clemson) - 51.9
69) Fisher Anderson (Stanford) - 51.6
70) Blake Steen (Virginia) - 51.0
71) Jason Collier Jr. (Pitt) - 50.3
71) Ryan Baer (Pitt) - 50.3
73) Luke Baklenko (Stanford) - 49.9
74) Lyndon Cooper (Pitt) - 49.5 at NC State
75) Jakiah Leftwich (North Carolina) - 48.7 [This one is weird to me because he is still listed on Georgia Tech's roster and not listed on North Carolina's so maybe the transfer didn't happen after all?]
76) BJ Williams (Pitt) - 48.0
77) Ty Furnish (Virginia) - 47.8
78) Ugonna Nnanna (Virginia) - 41.7
Group of Five players:
Justin Osborne (SMU) - 80.8
Logan Parr (SMU) - 79.5
Ben Sparks (SMU) - 74.9
Victor Stoffel (Cal) - 72.3 at Temple
Pete Nygra (Louisville) - 71.2 at Northern Illinois
Montavious Cunningham (Virginia Tech) - 71.0 at Georgia State
PJ Williams (SMU) - 66.6
Rasheed Miller (Louisville) - 63.1 at Georgia Southern
Keylan Rutledge (Georgia Tech) - 60.8 at Middle Tennessee
FCS transfers:
Micah Sahakian (Duke) - 89.5 at Cornell
Da'Metrius Weatherspoon (Syracuse) - 77.3 at Howard
Rush Reimer (Cal) - 75.8 at Montana State
Jacob Rizy (Florida State) - 74.6 at Harvard
Keagen Trost (Wake Forest) - 71.9 at Indiana State
Mike Barr (Duke) - 63.8 at Lafayette
Jack Purcell (Duke) - 62.2 at Penn
Jonathan Mendoza (Louisville) - 61.3 at Yale
Eric Schon (Duke) - 58.4 at Holy Cross
Codie Hornsby (Syracuse) - 55.3 at Grambling
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I am sure there are errors and/or things that will change but I wanted to get a sense of the OL landscape.
First with the good news: we obviously have a lot of experienced guys returning. ACC teams ranked by number of 200+ snap FBS OL:
Louisville - 7 (plus a mediocre FCS guy and an Ohio State transfer who didn't play much there but was a multi-year starter at Louisiana Monroe)
Stanford - 7
Virginia - 7
Virginia Tech - 7
Clemson - 6
Georgia Tech - 6 (maybe 7 if I'm wrong about where Leftwich is)
Pitt - 6
Cal - 5 (plus a good FCS guy)
Florida State - 5 (plus a good FCS guy)
Syracuse - 5 (plus a good FCS guy)
NC State - 5
Wake Forest - 5
SMU - 4 (also have transfers from Oklahoma and Miami who have played enough/decently enough that they could be factors)
Boston College - 4
Miami - 4
Duke - 2 (plus a dominant FCS guy as well as a few transfers who haven't played much elsewhere, including our own Pogorelc)
North Carolina - 2 (only 1 if I'm wrong about where Leftwich is)
The bad news is that when you account for transfers we may not have a single top 35 ACC OL. Yikes.
The best OL in term of quality seem to be Wake Forest (can't imagine too many teams with four guys who had 70+ grades last year.....wow, did not expect that), Florida State, and Boston College. SMU is a wild card because they are coming up a level of competition but they were studly last year. That seems to be the top four.
Teams ranked based on number of 63+ grades at any level in 2023:
Florida State - 6
SMU - 4
Louisville - 4
Miami - 4
Wake Forest - 4
Boston College - 3
Cal - 3
Duke - 3
Georgia Tech - 3
Virginia - 3
Clemson - 2
NC State - 2
Stanford - 2
Virginia Tech - 2
North Carolina - 1
Syracuse - 1
Pitt - 0
The bottom line is my guess is Stanford's OL is improved from 2023 but below average for the ACC.
1) Brian Stevens (Virginia) - 77.0
2) Willie Lampkin (North Carolina) - 76.2
3) Darius Washington (Florida State) - 76.1
4) Ozzy Trapilo (Boston College) - 75.0
5) Jalen Rivers (Miami) - 74.1
6) DeVonte Gordon (Wake Forest) - 73.1
7) Blake Miller (Clemson) - 72.9
8) Luke Petitbon (Wake Forest) - 72.8
9) Matt Gulbin (Wake Forest) - 72.4
10) Logan Taylor (Boston College) - 71.6
11) Brian Parker II (Duke) - 70.8
12) Michael Gonzalez (Louisville) - 70.6
13) Drew Kendall (Boston College) - 70.3
14) Maurice Smith (Florida State) - 69.6
15) Joe Fusile (Georgia Tech) - 69.2
16) Monroe Mills (Louisville) - 68.3 at Texas Tech
17) Weston Franklin (Georgia Tech) - 68.2
18) Francis Mauigoa (Miami) - 68.1
19) Keiondre Jones (Florida State) - 67.9
20) Jeremiah Byers (Florida State) - 67.7
21) Jordan Williams (Georgia Tech) - 67.3
22) Marcus Tate (Clemson) - 67.0
23) Richie Leonard IV (Florida State) - 65.9 at Florida
23) Anez Cooper (Miami) - 65.9
23) Anthony Belton (NC State) - 65.9
26) Zach Carpenter (Miami) 65.3 at Indiana
27) Jacarrius Peak (NC State) - 64.9
28) Levi Rogers (Stanford) - 64.3
29) Connor McLaughlin (Stanford) - 63.9
30) TJ Session (Cal) - 63.7
30) Braelin Moore (Virginia Tech) - 63.7
32) Noah Josey (Virginia) - 63.1
33) Drake Metcalf (Virginia) - 63.0 at UCF
34) Justin Pickett (Duke) - 62.9
35) McKale Boley (Virginia) - 62.7
36) Kaden Moore (Virginia Tech) - 62.4
37) Xavier Chaplin (Virginia Tech) - 62.2
38) Zeke Correll (NC State) - 61.9 at Notre Dame
39) Jake Maikkula (Stanford) - 61.0
40) Renato Brown (Louisville) - 60.9
41) Bastian Swinney (Cal) - 60.7
41) Erik Russell (Wake Forest) - 60.7
43) Jack Conley (Boston College) - 60.1
43) Matthew Wykoff (Cal) - 60.1
45) Branson Taylor (Pitt) - 59.8
46) Tristan Leigh (Clemson) - 59.5
47) Parker Clements (Virginia Tech) - 59.3
48) Brody Meadows (Virginia Tech) - 58.7
49) George Sell (Wake Forest) - 58.4
50) Joe Cruz (Syracuse) - 58.3
51) Terrence Moore (Pitt) - 57.8
52) Timothy McKay (NC State) - 57.6
53) Anthony Carter Jr. (NC State) - 56.5
54) Corey Robinson II (Georgia Tech) - 56.4
55) Jakob Bradford (Syracuse) - 56.3
56) Mark Petry (Syracuse) - 55.7
57) Collin Sadler (Clemson) - 55.4
58) J'Onre Reed (Syracuse) - 55.3
59) Sioape Vatikani (Cal) - 54.6
60) Trevor Mayberry (Stanford) - 53.7
61) Austin Collins (Louisville) - 53.6
62) Reuben Unije (Louisville) - 53.3 at Houston
63) Simione Pale (Stanford) - 53.1
64) Bob Schick (Virginia Tech) - 52.8
65) Ethan Mackenny (Georgia Tech) - 52.6
66) Enrique Cruz Jr. (Syracuse) - 52.4
67) Trent Howard (Clemson) - 52.1
68) Harris Sewell (Clemson) - 51.9
69) Fisher Anderson (Stanford) - 51.6
70) Blake Steen (Virginia) - 51.0
71) Jason Collier Jr. (Pitt) - 50.3
71) Ryan Baer (Pitt) - 50.3
73) Luke Baklenko (Stanford) - 49.9
74) Lyndon Cooper (Pitt) - 49.5 at NC State
75) Jakiah Leftwich (North Carolina) - 48.7 [This one is weird to me because he is still listed on Georgia Tech's roster and not listed on North Carolina's so maybe the transfer didn't happen after all?]
76) BJ Williams (Pitt) - 48.0
77) Ty Furnish (Virginia) - 47.8
78) Ugonna Nnanna (Virginia) - 41.7
Group of Five players:
Justin Osborne (SMU) - 80.8
Logan Parr (SMU) - 79.5
Ben Sparks (SMU) - 74.9
Victor Stoffel (Cal) - 72.3 at Temple
Pete Nygra (Louisville) - 71.2 at Northern Illinois
Montavious Cunningham (Virginia Tech) - 71.0 at Georgia State
PJ Williams (SMU) - 66.6
Rasheed Miller (Louisville) - 63.1 at Georgia Southern
Keylan Rutledge (Georgia Tech) - 60.8 at Middle Tennessee
FCS transfers:
Micah Sahakian (Duke) - 89.5 at Cornell
Da'Metrius Weatherspoon (Syracuse) - 77.3 at Howard
Rush Reimer (Cal) - 75.8 at Montana State
Jacob Rizy (Florida State) - 74.6 at Harvard
Keagen Trost (Wake Forest) - 71.9 at Indiana State
Mike Barr (Duke) - 63.8 at Lafayette
Jack Purcell (Duke) - 62.2 at Penn
Jonathan Mendoza (Louisville) - 61.3 at Yale
Eric Schon (Duke) - 58.4 at Holy Cross
Codie Hornsby (Syracuse) - 55.3 at Grambling
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I am sure there are errors and/or things that will change but I wanted to get a sense of the OL landscape.
First with the good news: we obviously have a lot of experienced guys returning. ACC teams ranked by number of 200+ snap FBS OL:
Louisville - 7 (plus a mediocre FCS guy and an Ohio State transfer who didn't play much there but was a multi-year starter at Louisiana Monroe)
Stanford - 7
Virginia - 7
Virginia Tech - 7
Clemson - 6
Georgia Tech - 6 (maybe 7 if I'm wrong about where Leftwich is)
Pitt - 6
Cal - 5 (plus a good FCS guy)
Florida State - 5 (plus a good FCS guy)
Syracuse - 5 (plus a good FCS guy)
NC State - 5
Wake Forest - 5
SMU - 4 (also have transfers from Oklahoma and Miami who have played enough/decently enough that they could be factors)
Boston College - 4
Miami - 4
Duke - 2 (plus a dominant FCS guy as well as a few transfers who haven't played much elsewhere, including our own Pogorelc)
North Carolina - 2 (only 1 if I'm wrong about where Leftwich is)
The bad news is that when you account for transfers we may not have a single top 35 ACC OL. Yikes.
The best OL in term of quality seem to be Wake Forest (can't imagine too many teams with four guys who had 70+ grades last year.....wow, did not expect that), Florida State, and Boston College. SMU is a wild card because they are coming up a level of competition but they were studly last year. That seems to be the top four.
Teams ranked based on number of 63+ grades at any level in 2023:
Florida State - 6
SMU - 4
Louisville - 4
Miami - 4
Wake Forest - 4
Boston College - 3
Cal - 3
Duke - 3
Georgia Tech - 3
Virginia - 3
Clemson - 2
NC State - 2
Stanford - 2
Virginia Tech - 2
North Carolina - 1
Syracuse - 1
Pitt - 0
The bottom line is my guess is Stanford's OL is improved from 2023 but below average for the ACC.
