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Ok. With the Thuney trade a done deal, let's hammer this out.
- We (most likely) will not be drafting a left tackle who is expected to start for us this season in this draft.
- I think all signs point to Kingsley sliding in at LG, because Caliendo isn't a viable option there (not a viable option to be on this team, really). If not Kingsley, then who? Nourzad? CJ Hanson?
- Which means we need a vet at LT to cover a green LG. "Viable" free agent options
1) Donovan Smith
2) Ronnie Stanley
3) Cam Robinson
4) DJ Humphries
5) Tyron Smith
all of which have questions associated with them
- Blockbuster trade for a plug and play LT. This hasn't been Veach's M.O., but it's still an option.
All of this looks sort of bleak. Of those options listed, the best appears to be Cam Robinson or a trade if they could find someone willing to give up a stud LT (spoiler: they won't, especially not at what it would cost in both salary and compensation). I would assume they're holding out hope that DJ Humphries can show he's healed up and can regain his Pro Bowl form, or maybe that Donovan Smith really is 100% and ready to go. But outside of either of those two guys overcoming the odds, what does that leave us? A rookie LT or a vet with questions.
I think Cam is going to be the call, minus some wild wheeling and dealing we didn't see coming.
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