Previously: Podcast 14.0A, 14.0B, 14.0C. The Story. Quarterback. Running Back. Wide Receiver. Tight End. Offensive Tackle. LT Yr. LG Yr. C Yr. RG Yr. RT Yr. Ryan Hayes Jr** Trevor Keegan So** Olu Oluwatimi Sr** Zak Zinter So* Trente Jones So** Jeffrey Persi Fr** Reece Atteberry So* Greg Crippen So Gio El-Hadi Fr* Karsen Barnhart So** Tristan Bounds Fr* Alessandro Lorenzetti Fr Raheem Anderson Fr* Connor Jones Fr Andrew Gentry Fr The Joe Moore Award was started in 2015 by some Notre Dame OL with money who wanted to honor their old line coach. Mike DeBord's career spanned roughly the same time period as Joe Moore's, and by any metric was as successful. Had Jeff Backus thought to endow an award before former ND tackle Aaron Taylor, it might have been the Mike DeBord Award. This would have been a superior development. It rhymes, for one. Two, I wouldn't have to keep specifying first names when differentiating between the line coach the award is named for, and the line coach whose guys won the award in his first-ever season as line coach. Since nobody has the time to chart every OL, the award for most outstanding offensive line is as much about vibe as anything else. Eleven games into 2021, I would bet Michigan wasn't in the Might Have Been DeBord Award committee's top three. Eleven point seven-five games into 2021, this was the vibe: Michigan should not pass the ball anymore. — Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) November 27, 2021 (But in a good way) The two Michigan guards putting tears in the eyes of gruff former trenchmen who say "football" like "FOOT-ball" were just 2nd and 3rd year players with freshman eligibility. They lost an organized, underratedly agile walk-on but are joined by a transfer the Rimington voters thought was no worse than the 3rd best in college football. Our heuristics would be projecting a healthy charge up the rankings and hot-taking Moore's corps to win the Moore if they hadn't just done so. The comparisons to 2000 and 2019 have already begun. The next generation has made the two-deep. The biggest questions people have about the interior OL are "How long can it last?" and "Can we buy them all Italian sports cars so they'll never leave?" Michigan OL Trevor Keegan and Zak Zinter sign a Lamborghini NIL deal with Xtremexperience. @bighitslive @DenoteHunter @DzikNoah pic.twitter.com/vGzgtwxHRq — Bighitsnil (@Bighitsnil) May 23, 2022 Okay then, so how long can it last? [After THE JUMP: The Exceptionals]