Washington Huskies Football: Rebuilding the offensive line
Right Guard
Last year’s starter Henry Bainivalu returns to the Washington Huskies for his sixth season. He’s by far the team’s most experienced lineman, with 39 games played since 2019. His return came as a sort of a surprise since he was eligible for the NFL draft. This season Bainvalu may be the anchor who keeps the offensive line together.
Bainivalu is backed up by a pair of redshirt freshmen, Myles Murao and Gaard Memmelaar. Neither has played for Washington Huskies thus far, but the duo is fighting it out for number two in the pecking order.
Right Tackle
Junior Victor Curne returns to start at right tackle. Over the last two seasons, Curne all 16 games. Whether or not he’s a good player is somewhat debatable. How the line worked last season it’s hard to know if his play was a cause of the problems or the result of a poor unit as a whole.
Samuel Peacock is Curne’s understudy right now. The Gig Harbor, Washington native, is another of the Huskies’ redshirt freshmen linemen and has been in the program for two years. Neither he or redshirt frosh Robert Wyrsch, the third-stringer, have played in a college game. Due to the lack of experience at this critical position, it won’t be a surprise if Rosengarten comes over to stabilize the depth.
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This spring camp is all about putting the best players in the best spots, so there could be quite a bit of shuffling among the linemen.