When Tom Telesco and the Chargers made the decision to draft Trey Pipkins in the third round of the 2019 draft, it was met with quite a few skeptics. After all, Pipkins played at the University of Sioux Falls, a Division II school in South Dakota that the majority of football fan had probably never heard of. But at 6’6 and 307 pounds, Telesco felt that Pipkins had the necessary foundation to be developed into a future starting tackle in the NFL.
However, through his first two seasons in the league, that ideal future seemed to only get further and further away as he consistently showed the inability to play with NFL-caliber defenders.