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Name: Andrew Stueber
Height: 6’7″
Weight: 334 lbs.
High school: Darien (CT) Darien
Position: Offensive tackle
Class: Redshirt sophomore
Jersey number: #71
Last year: I ranked Stueber #52 and said he would be a backup offensive tackle (LINK). He played in all thirteen games and started two at right tackle.
TTB Rating: 82
Stueber had a solid redshirt freshman season for a guy who didn’t get a ton of recruiting attention coming out of high school. He was mostly a special teams guy and backup. It’s easy to play special teams on the field goal unit when you weight 330 pounds or so. But he ascended to the starting right tackle job late in the year after Juwann Bushell-Beatty’s injury, and Michigan didn’t really seem to miss a beat. (Bushell-Beatty skipped the bowl game to prepare for the NFL, which didn’t help him much, but that’s a complaint for another time.)
Michigan is in a pretty good situation, in my opinion, if Stueber is the backup offensive tackle. Or even if he’s the starter. I liked what I saw out of him last year in the run game, and while his pass protection is a little shaky from a technique standpoint, he has the size and strength that will prevent him from getting bull rushed back into the quarterback. He might get beat by speed rushers, but those guys are usually on the offense’s left side. Right now I think Stueber will be the Wolverines’ starting right tackle, but overall, this is Michigan’s deepest and most talented offensive line since at least the early 2000s.
Prediction: Starting right tackle
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Might went to check his weight. I know these things can be exaggerated, but stueber certainly looks well over 300
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He’s listed at 334 on the roster. That’s a seriously big dude.
I’ve always liked Stueber on the basis of one play he made in high school. He came out of his stance, got his hands on some poor little DT and basically had the kid throttled. He then takes a second to look around and decide if there is anybody else around he might want to get, having thrown this kid away, or should he just bury him. You can see him think it through, “Nobody? Oh well.” And he drives the kid into the ground.
I laughed over and over.
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Bold claim about the OL! Pretty debatable IMO when comparing back to the 2011 O-Line.
Are Bredeson/Ruiz/Onwenu going to start as many games in the NFL as Lewan/Omameh/Schofield? Is anyone of these guys going to be an all-american award winner like Molk?
Hard to project. A lot depends on what happens with Steuber/Mayfield. I’m cautiously optimistic.
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“at least the early 2000s”
Zero point zero percent chance it is as good as the 2000 OL.
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ARGH!
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