LSU O-line to have youth, experience - Shreveport Times
LSU will be starting two first-time starters, including one freshman, on its offensive line when it opens the season at 6:30 p. m. Saturday against McNeese State in Tiger Stadium on the SEC Network. Coach Les Miles, a former Michigan starting guard, wants all his first timers to be next to an old timer in the trenches. This is why he recently moved junior Ethan Pocic from the starting left guard position to starting center and inserted redshirt freshman William Clapp as the starting left guard after Clapp had been working through most of August as the No. 1 center. From left to right, LSU’s offensive line will have junior Jerald Hawkins of Baldwin at tackle after starting 26 games in 2013 and ’14, Clapp at left guard in his first start since he was at Brother Martin High in New Orleans in 2013, Pocic at... “With Pocic at center with the tackles, they can tell the guards virtually everything to do. I think Pocic gives us a great advantage in the fact that he can play a number of spots. Pocic started three games at center last season and nine at right guard. “He’s a mauler,” Miles said of Clapp — the son of former LSU defensive end/outside linebacker Tommy Clapp, who played from 1984-87. “He wants to get on you and stay on you and drive you. Source: www.shreveporttimes.com
