The reconstituted line in the sun bowl (albeit against a lot of scrubs) pushed the opponent around like rag dolls. So there is a glimmer of hope that the OL will turn out to be decent.

I'll withhold judgement until after A&M, of course.

Seem to be the biggest concerns.

There’s a lot of faith that Jagusah and Shrauth will get there.

(not to mention Trigger)

Greathouse and Thomas and Faison from last year. Now add in the transfers from this past winter.

They aren't going to be trotting out a WR group like we've seen from Alabama or LSU or OSU in recent years but compared to some of our groups over the last few years, it should be better.

quite a while. Last year's group was catastrophically bad, and the year before was pretty awful too (though harder to assess given the limitations at QB).

Here's our leading WR's receptions and yards the past several years:
23: Flores 27-392
22: Styles 30-340
21: Austin 48-888
20: McKinley 42-717
19: Claypool 66-1037
18: Boykin 59-872
17: St.Brown 33-515
16: St.Brown 58-961
15: Fuller 62-1258

The post-Claypool years have been pretty uninspiring. Even Kevin Austin's final year was highly inconsistent with plenty of key drops.

Maybe it happens this year. But I think we need to see it first.

Even sans Mitchell

Raridon
Flanagan
Sherwood
Bauman
Larsen
Garrity

I would feel very confident in a TE group consisting of just Raridon, Flanagan, Sherwood, and Bauman. I'd expect 4+ receptions per game which would be Top 10 caliber. I'd expect all 4 of those guys to be Average to Above Average Blockers with respect to the TE position. Raridon and Flanagan may not be the caliber of player that requires special game-planning like Mayer or Bowers but that type of potential isn't out of the realm of possibility IMO.

And seems like a logical subtraction as a grad transfer to get the scholarship number under 85.

the kid. His injury history (broken leg in opener against FSU in '21, 2 ACL tears since then) really held him back during his career.