I agree that it is much harder to play left tackle overall than the safety position, but i would caveat that with the fact that there were a lot of games earlier in the season where Raimann wasn't particularly great. He has started 10 games, the first couple he didn't play that much and was part of a rotation from memory. If you were to say he has properly started and completed 8 of those games, 3 were below average, 3 average, and then 2 above average, would that be a reasonably fair assessment of his performances? I would say even in the poorer games, there were still traits shown where you could see he had the ability to succeed.
I like him, and think he is going to be the future going forward at LT. It is nice that we have a few rookies, who have shown potential to be significant contributors going forward from the 2022 class. Pierce, Raimann, Woods and Thomas are likely going to be long term starters, with Eric Johnson, Cross, Ogletree and Flowers being significant contributors for the team as well, this was an excellent draft, so far at least
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