2018 UCLA Football Fall Preview: Building the Offensive Line

For far too long, the UCLA offensive line has been a point of concern for the Bruins. How long is too long? Well, let’s just say that I’m looking forward to the day when the offensive line is not a concern on a Bruin team.

To be sure, Hank Fraley deserves some credit. He took last year’s guys and managed to piece together a line that improve by nearly an entire yard per carry rushing last season. But that came at a price to the passing game as the line gave up 5 more sacks last year than they did in 2016.

Fraley returned to the NFL in February when he took a job with the Detroit Lions and was replaced by Justin Frye. Frye has a proven track record of developing offensive linemen at Temple as…