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UTEP hopes veteran defensive line can increase production

Collectively, UTEP needs more production from the front four, and they feel they can deliver. Bret Bloomquist/El Paso Times

The search for defensive linemen will never end for the UTEP football team, but there is a sense the Miners are on a little higher ground as the 2018 opener approaches.

After a stretch in which it seemed as though they were starting over on the line every year, the Miners currently have three reasonably proven veterans, two of them former freshmen all-conference players, on the four-man front, with the fourth spot being held by a senior transfer from the Big 12.