Analyzing the Virginia Cavaliers' offensive line personnel for the 2024 football season.
season officially kicks off, we're continuing our position group previews by examining the unit that is arguably most important to UVA's success on the offensive side of the ball this fall. The Cavalier offensive line has struggled with consistency, stability, and health ever since the end of the Bronco Mendenhall era, when six players with extensive starting experience departed from the program at the conclusion of the 2021 season.
While the Cavaliers made some notable progress on the offensive line over the course of the 2023 season, the overall numbers for the season weren't pretty. In the two statistical categories most directly tied to offensive line performance - rushing offense and sacks allowed - Virginia was dreadful. In 2023, UVA averaged 117.9 rushing yards per game, which ranked 105th in the country and second to last in the ACC.
The good news for Virginia is that the biggest indicators of offensive line improvement in college football is returning experienced players who have played a lot of snaps together on the line of scrimmage and the Cavaliers check those boxes in 2024. All seven of the players who started games on the offensive line for UVA last season are back this year, including the exact five-man unit that started each of the last five games of the season.
On the other side of the line, Virginia will be looking for a big leap from Blake Steen, who appeared in eight games and started the last five of the season at right tackle after redshirting the 2022 campaign. Steen has perhaps the biggest breakout potential of any UVA offensive lineman as he showed some great flashes down the stretch in 2023.
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