Assessing where things stand for the Oregon football team entering the start of preseason camp Aug. 3.



OFFENSIVE LINE



Who's back: The bad news is, the Oregon offensive line enters the 2018 season without left tackle Tyrell Crosby , who last fall won the Morris Trophy as the Pac-12's best blocker by vote of the conference's defensive linemen. The good news is, most every other impact player is back at the position where new UO coach Mario Cristobal played and then made his name as an assistant coach before taking over the Ducks this year. The headliners are preseason awards candidates Jake Hanson , Shane Lemieux and Calvin Throckmorton , all full-time starters the last two years. Hanson is the offensive line's brain at the center position, Lemieux is a bruising guard and Throckmorton is the unit's most versatile cog; he's played primarily tackle but also guard, and even took practice reps at center to boot when Hanson sat out this spring.

Their classmate Brady Aiello has also started in each of the last two seasons, taking over for an injured Crosby at left tackle in 2016 and then returning to the first-string at right tackle late in 2017. Sophomore Jacob Capra made his first career start last season at UCLA, and practiced with the first-string for a considerable amount of this spring. Sam Poutasi spent his redshirt freshman season amassing reps with the scout team, where he was typically joined by walk-ons Ryan Walk and Charlie Landgraf .

Who's new: Where to start? Let's begin with the redshirts. George Moore was on the travel squad in 2017 but didn't get on the field; he replaced Crosby at left tackle with the first-string this spring, and looks like a big-time pro prospect once he gets some D-I experience under his belt. After Throckmorton, the most versatile guy on the line is probably Alex Forsyth , who practiced all over the line while redshirting in 2017; Cody Shear wasn't as fortunate, sitting out much of last fall due to injury. Another veteran entered the mix this summer when transfer Dallas Warmack enrolled. Cristobal recruited him to Alabama, and now will have the chance to coach him with the Ducks; the former four-star recruit squatted a monstrous 675 pounds this summer.

That's a SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE pound squat from Oregon's @DallasWarmack ?? pic.twitter.com/TlBIlBMPj5 — ESPN (@espn) July 21, 2018