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OL Thayer Munford (1st Team All B1G, 1st Team All-American, Las Vegas Raiders)

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Jaxbuck said:
I don't know about close. One guy in that Stringer/Pace due was Orlando Pace.

All due respect to NPF & Munford but they, like 90% of high D1 & NFL tackles, aren't in Orlando Pace's zip code.

While I'm thinking about the 90's, I give you John Cooper's 1994 NFL roster:
  • Orlando Pace OT
  • Korey Stringer OT
  • Eddie George RB
  • Nicky Sualua FB (this was an important position in 1994 and Sualua was a monster)
  • Joey Galloway WR
  • Terry Glenn WR
  • Chris Sanders WR
  • Rickey Dudley TE
  • Bobby Hoying QB
Defense:
  • Shawn Springs
  • Craig Powell
  • Lorenzo Styles
  • Mike Vrabel
  • Matt Finkes
  • Marlon Kerner
  • Tito Paul
16 some odd NFL guys, including some all timers, and that asshole went 9-4.

He was remarkably incompetent.
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Did Orlando play like the top overall pick as a freshman? He likely already would have been drafted #1 because the potential was clear, but he wasn’t all American. I feel like he may have been equivalent to a top 10 or so pick at that point but I don’t recall well enough.

Regardless, will be interesting to see where Thayer and NPF end up. I like using draft results as one objective barometer.
 
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Munford, if he can stay healthy might become a day one Draft prospect and a multimillionaire. NPF also. This years QB will be one very lucky dude!

The Buckeyes’ interior offensive line has been a bit of a disappointment this season, but the unit still slots in at No. 12 thanks to superb play from tackles Thayer Munford and Nicholas Petit-Frere. Munford’s 89.4 PFF grade ranks seventh among all FBS tackles, and Petit-Frere isn’t too far behind at 16th. Petit-Frere’s pass protection, in particular, has been elite. He has played 153 pass-blocking snaps this season without allowing a single pressure. And a good chunk of those snaps came against a formidable Penn State pass-rushing duo, Shaka Toney and Jayson Oweh. Right guard Wyatt Davis was one of the best all-around interior offensive linemen of 2019, but he has failed to replicate that success in 2020. His PFF grade has dropped from 82.6 last season to 67.5 through four games this year.
https://www.pff.com/news/college-football-ranking-all-127-fbs-offensive-lines-through-cfb-week-13
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
Apart from Flutie being awarded Bears’ Heisman because of one bad play by the Miami defense, my main memory of 84 was of a huge deficiency on the defensive line.

Cooper was a better recruiter. He recruited a lot of the 2002 NC
No matter how long he stayed, he never would’ve been in danger of winning his own NC

edit: ummmm.... hopefully Thayer will be rewarded for coming back by winning his own NC
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Earl never had good defensive lines. I remember it being a perennial weakness to his teams. That 84 team was loaded everywhere else though with one NFL hall of famer and two (Lachey and Spielman) who were close.

Yes, Flutie received the award because of one stupid play and the fact that they were itching to give it to a whi...umm...quarterback for the first time in over a decade. They probably thought that Byers would just be a lock for it his senior year, but those two psychotic twins from Chagrin Falls put an end to that during practice.
 
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BigJim said:
Did Orlando play like the top overall pick as a freshman? He likely already would have been drafted #1 because the potential was clear, but he wasn’t all American. I feel like he may have been equivalent to a top 10 or so pick at that point but I don’t recall well enough.

Regardless, will be interesting to see where Thayer and NPF end up. I like using draft results as one objective barometer.
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Yes
 
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Ryan Day's press conference today: (On Thayer Munford staying at Ohio State) "He's a mature young man who understands the value of an education and what that means for the rest of his life and a life after football." He notes Munford's leadership has "stepped up" over the past few months. "I think he likes that role. I think he appreciates the guys who have come before and he wants to uphold that standard."
 
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“I really didn’t feel that comfortable yet for me leaving, because I knew I needed to get my degree before I had to move on. Because that’s what I promised my mom, and anybody that was around me throughout my whole senior year of high school,” Munford said last week. “I’m the first generation in my family just to graduate college or go to college, for real. And I’m honored to actually be that first generation, so I can tell it to my kids and my grandkids, so they can tell it to their kids. I’m grateful to be in this position that I am right now.”

Nate Moore, who became Munford’s legal guardian along with his wife Becca in 2016, believes Munford made the right decision.

“My advice was to come back to Ohio State,” said Moore, the head football coach at Massillon Washington. “At the end of the day, that’s his decision. He’s a grown man. But my advice to him certainly was come back to Ohio State. A: Get your degree. B: You didn’t accomplish every goal that you wanted to accomplish last year. And for whatever reason with the COVID stuff, maybe this was the silver lining for you personally that you get another shot to do some of those things.

“That degree from Ohio State, it’s gonna change his life, it’s gonna change his kids’ lives, it’s gonna change his grandkids’ lives … I’m happy to have been a part of the journey. And I know his mom MeLisa’s super proud of him. I know my wife Becca’s super proud of him. And it’s gonna be tears of joy watching him walk across that stage.”
 
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In the 2021 NFL Draft, four offensive tackles were taken in the first round, including two within the first 15 picks. With the 2021 college football season right around the corner, Pro Football Focus recently released a list of the top five offensive tackles in all of college football.

The top five, in order from No. 1 to No. 5 are Ohio State’s Thayer Munford, Kentucky’s Darian Kinnard, Alabama’s Evan Neal, Georgia’s Jamaree Salyer, and Northwestern’s Peter Skoronski. Each player was a former 247Sports Composite four-star recruit or better, with Neal and Salyer both five-star recruits.
 
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The 2021 college football season remains two and half months from kicking off, but as summer begins to sweep across the country, football is already in the air. On Thursday, the Walter Camp Football Foundation announced its preseason All-American teams for the upcoming year, meaning college football will be here before we know it.

Among those named to the preseason All-American team are three Ohio State players. Senior wide receiver Chris Olave and fifth-year senior offensive tackle Thayer Munford were both named to the first-team offense. Fifth-year senior Haskell Garrett was named to the first-team defense. No Buckeyes were selected as second-team preseason honors.
 
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