Donovan Laie wasn’t expected to play such a major role this season for the Arizona Wildcats, a 3-star prospect ranked by 247Sports as the No. 93 offensive tackle in the 2018 recruiting class.
Yet, on Saturday against USC he will make his fifth consecutive start, his third at right tackle after starting the first two games at left tackle.
And when Laie lines up for the Wildcats’ first offensive snap it will officially eliminate any possibility of him being redshirted in 2018.
Not that Arizona was considering such a thing, but the new redshirt rule implemented this year by the NCAA has caused college football coaches to keep close track of how it uses certain players.