Paki Finau

And that's what ties into my next player that I'm curious to watch.

Paki Finau and Batmolitalo.

The two tackles for BYU.

Paki has been excellent.

I told you back in January, out of all those offensive line transfers, Junior Sia, Zach Yamauchi, Paki Finau.

I said Finau's the one that's plug and play, high level, maybe an all-conference type guy right away.

Go back and run the tape in January.

Hockey, Finau, thank you.

They've been doing that a little bit.

I think Trevor Nossey tried to do it to Paki Finau on, uh, Wednesday.

So yeah, BYU teammates.

Look-

Um, uh, he's got a lot, like, bright future, uh, or a lot of bright football coming up in his future, so if he's not ready, he's not ready.

Um, and then one more to watch for, uh, BYU left tackle Paki Finau, uh, Washington transfer who has been really good this year.

But he hasn't seen a pass rusher like Boubacar Traore, so I think that'll be a really good matchup to watch in the trenches.

My contribution to this is f- uh, he's an ineligible player.

He's out.

And it's a Washington transfer, Paki Finau, who's anchoring the O-line and left tackle.

Jarrett, what's your reaction when you hear that about BYU getting blitzed, but they're holding up at the front line?

Well, I think, like I said before, I think that the stunts were working against TCU, and I think that those are some of those things that need to be implemented.

So let's just go back to the offensive line talk because this is something that we've talked about a lot on this show, right? Like going back to February and March, I heard from many people in and around the program saying, "Hey, we're really excited about what this offensive line can look like coming into the 2026 season.

We think that this could be a top three, top five group in the Big Ten." And I think that's one of the most disappointing things about this, right? Because obviously there's a lot that's been made of Paki Finau transferring to BYU, Zach Henning transferring to Arizona, and certainly those are things that you can look at now and say, "Well, hey, that's really frustrating." And it's also something that you can look at from a, a variety of different places, right? Because Jon Mills, with the way this offensive line was supposed to look, Jon Mills was gonna be the left guard.

Uh, Chantale Lea was expected to step in at right guard.

And with Cody Green, Colt Dietrick, it didn't feel like there was going to be much of a spot for Paki Finau, and I think he's a very talented player.

I've always thought that.

But that's just the reality of college football is it's very hard to hold onto some of these guys as backups.