UCLA Football: The Defensive Line In Progress

If UCLA football has a weakness, one could say that it is the defensive line, albeit it is hard to call them weak when you have Eddie Vanderdoes, Kenny Clark and Takkarist McKinley leading the charge on that side of the ball.

This perception of the UCLA D-line is only that because of its depth. After last season, two Bruins left for the NFL Draft, senior Owamagbe Odighizuwa and the early departed Ellis McCarthy. Owa was expected to go. McCarthy was not. It also did not help that Jim Mora and company only picked up one player on the D-line, Rick Wade, this past National Signing Day.

Because of this, the defensive line is a bit thin… but it is not depleted.

Aside from several young players…