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Ranking all 130 college football offensive line situations | NFL Draft | PFF
PFF's Cam Mellor presents the offensive line rankings for all 130 FBS teams from the 2019 college football season.
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100. Miami (Fl.) Hurricanes
Highest-graded player: OT DJ Scaife Jr. – 68.0 (135th)
The Hurricanes may have seen their highest-graded player on the offensive line finish at tackle, but how bad they were opposite Scaife is put into perspective when you realize they ranked just 110th overall as a unit on the outside and 110th in pass-blocking grade. They allowed the eighth-most pressures as a group (140) this season.
People frequently post counting stats on this board to quantify the OL as "the worst in the nation" or historically bad. I thought this was an interesting perspective to highlight that the OL graded poorly but perhaps not as bad as fans think. I assume PFF attributes some of Miami's protection issues to QBs taking bad sacks, RBs missing assignments and generally poor playcalling from Enos with his high volume of slow-developing pass plays failing by design.
Interestingly UF ranked 92nd and SMU ranked 80th by this grading system, which again highlights how scheme and playcalling can diminish or exacerbate the effect of a bad OL.
I think the combination of a new scheme, new OL coach, internal player improvement and a baseline of being undervalued will lead to a perception of dramatic improvement from the OL in 2020.