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Originally Posted by ChiTown
I don't know that I see Long playing RT. Maybe I've missed something, but I thought he was plugged in as a RG, competing with LDT for the starting spot.
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He's played both RG and RT.
People assume he'll play RG because it's a lesser position than RT, and that Niang is the shoe-in for RT.
Niang likely is the starting RT. But Long can play RT too in case of an injury.
I put Long at RT instead of Niang for the sake of the excercise, to not duplicate players while demonstrating that even our back up Oline is an NFL caliber starting Oline.
Consider that prior to the Brown trade, people were already rationalizing this as a competent Oline rebuild:
Niang/Thuney/Blythe/LDT/Remmers