If you’re searching for reasons to feel optimistic about this year’s UConn football team, you’ll have to dig all the way down to the must underappreciated unit on any team: the offensive line.
This was one of the few areas of the team that got to build a good amount of continuity last year. Four out of the five starters return, all of them starting every game last year. The four returners — right tackle Matt Peart, left tackle Ryan Van Demark, and guards Nino Leone and Cam DeGeorge — have 48 starts between them.
In 2019, the big nasties did their best work in the running game, helping Pindell to a 1,000-yard rushing season, while bulldozing their way to the 39th offense in the country in yards per rush attempt.