Why some highly drafted offensive linemen fail, with Mitchell Schwartz and Marshall Newhouse

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We know that there will be misses in the 2023 NFL Draft. There are misses in every draft. But while many fans can wrap their heads around why a quarterback or cornerback flops, it can be much harder to figure out why a highly drafted offensive linemen doesn't pan out in the league. Mitchell Schwartz and Marshall Newhouse, who spent a combined 20 years in the trenches in the NFL, join Robert Mays to break down why some linemen fail on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Follow Robert on Twitter: @robertmays Follow Mitch on Twitter: @MitchSchwartz71 Follow Marshall on Twitter: @MNewhouse73 Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Athletic Football Show.
0:15.6	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
0:17.8	I'm Robert Mays, fun show for you guys today.
0:20.6	I think only on this podcast would we do a two-part show about pre-draft offensive line
0:25.9	prospects and the different ways that we can talk about them, because we're really catering
0:29.7	to the biggest audience possible here.
0:31.9	We already did the this year's prospects.
0:34.2	You may have already listened to that earlier today.
0:36.2	We'll talk about those guys with Dean Brugler and Brandon Thorne really digging into the
0:39.7	2023 class.
0:40.7	So if you haven't gone to listen to that, please do.
0:43.5	But beyond those specific guys and what their outcomes or what their prospects look like
0:48.8	in the NFL, the other side of this conversation that I wanted to dig into is why guys drafted
0:55.1	in the first couple rounds, which they're going to be plenty in this year's class.
0:58.7	That's what we're going to do.
0:59.7	I think most people that even are big fans of football are going to look at guys drafted
1:04.0	50th overall that didn't end up becoming an offensive line starter and not really understand
1:08.3	why.
1:09.3	Offensive lineplay is kind of a black box for a lot of people.
1:12.1	So I wanted to explore some of that.
1:13.9	Why are these guys that are drafted relatively high?
1:16.7	Why haven't some of them worked out and what does that kind of negative timeline look like
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