The fun started almost immediately after UCLA’s coaches held a draft to divvy up teams for their spring game.
Players scanned the rosters to see whether they would be competing alongside or against close friends and roommates. The talent level on each side was widely assessed. A prominent alumnus even provided a lighthearted directive.
“To the ucla defensive line,” Takkarist McKinley, a former member of that line, wrote on Twitter, “DO NOT TOUCH ROSEN. we all seen how our season went without him lol”
The Bruins finished 4-8 in 2016, largely as a result of the shoulder injury that sidelined Rosen midway through the season after the offensive line failed to protect its star quarterback.