Like defensive coordinator Manny Diaz, former UM standout offensive lineman Joel Rodriguez is an exceptional communicator, and that extends to analyzing UM’s personnel.
Rodriguez, who focused on offense last season, will be the Hurricanes’ director of player development/defense, this season. And Rodriguez offered a cogent assessment of UM’s defensive players in a June conversation, a couple of months before UM’s Sept. 2 opener against LSU in Arlington, Tx.
We’ll offer up his assessment in a four-part series this week, beginning with defensive tackle.
“You don’t have as much of the top heavy depth as you had last year when you had R.