One of the persistently annoying things about Vanderbilt football is that when Vanderbilt loses a bunch of starters, the players stepping up to replace them are assumed to be not very good.
Vanderbilt’s offensive line is perhaps ground zero for this in 2019. Read just about any preseason publication, and you’ll learn that Vanderbilt has to replace three starters on the offensive line — which is obviously a bad thing, but other teams returning two starters up front are not assumed to have a big drop off. That’s where the second assumption comes into play: Vanderbilt will probably just fill in with bad replacements for the departed players.