2023 Central Michigan Football Positional Previews: Offensive line

It feels like we’re a broken record at this point, but the story of the 2022 season for the Central Michigan Chippewas offense is it was a battered, rebuilding unit which had no consistency.

Playing on the offensive line at CMU comes with certain expectations; CMU has a grand tradition of graduating linemen to the NFL, and is typically one of the better units in the MAC as a result.

A bit of a regression was expected in 2022 after Luke Goedeke and Bernhard Raimann both graduated into the NFL via the Draft, but the sheer rate of regression was startling. CMU went from a Top 25 offensive unit in every phase to tied for 86th in scoring and 84th in total yards, with one of the country’s worst…