TUCSON - You didn’t have to be a football expert to see that the Arizona Wildcats’ pass protection was out of sync at times last season. All too often, rushers would come free to disrupt plays. Something was getting lost in translation between the linemen and the quarterbacks.
It was understandable to some degree. Arizona shuffled through five quarterbacks because of injuries and other factors, and the primary starter, Brandon Dawkins, was also a first-time starter.
So was center Nathan Eldridge, who was thrust into the lineup as a redshirt freshman after the sudden death last August of projected starter Zach Hemmila.