Chasen Hines didn't want to play center. His snaps were chaotic. Some were way off target. Some were simply snapped so hard the quarterback couldn't catch it, because the massive lineman was too strong.
Marshall High School in Texas needed Hines to play center at the beginning of his junior year, and some days he and offensive line coach Charles Williams butted heads over it.
"This is what the team needs you to do, and that's what you need to play," Williams told him. "You don't have no option."
He played center, and he played offensive tackle and defensive line, and it was moments like Hines' experience at center that foreshadowed what Hines has been doing for LSU this fall -- whatever LSU needed.