Tobias Raymond

You lose your starting setter in Killian O'Connor before the season.

You hate saying it's no big deal, but here's Tobias Raymond.

And it is a big deal.

There has been a little bit of a – you have noticed a little bit of a difference when Killian's not in there.

I don't like going in order, so I'm just going to just pick and choose.

From nwfan76, does USC look to the portal for a center next year and move Tobias back to guard? Is it possible that a true center may be ready next year? It seems like this year's move was a temporary stopgap.

Maryland center might be someone to look at.

You know, if Tobias comes back, I would assume he will still be the center unless he is beaten out.

He would have an argument to go to the NFL.

He's draft eligible.

But I don't think they would go... center portal.

I think that they like the guys they have developing.

Offensive line, though, I crushed it.

Elijah Page, Caleb Miller, Tobias Raymond, Ratumana Bulabalovu, and Justin Taunao.

And then on the defensive side, I think I'm winning as well.

Another great, great selections here just by me.

Hayden Treater is a redshirt sophomore.

Tobias Raymond is a redshirt junior.

A lot of you know as a senior.

And then Justin Tanu is a redshirt sophomore.

Like that's an issue.

And I think with Tobias Raymond, I think he just has a hard time getting leverage as a center.

You know, that was something that we were concerned about when they moved him over to center.

I don't think I've had my opinion change on that, having watched him.

Give him a ton of credit, but also just the silent counts.

Kalen Miller, it wasn't Tobias Raymond like looking through his legs looking for Jayden Maiva to, to lift his leg or anything like that.

It was actually Kalen Miller who was the one that was looking back to get the signal, and then he would signal to Tobias Raymond.

So it's a whole process, but USC was able to handle that.

When the tight ends were in, when they were, uh, connected to the line, you would see Tucker Ashcraft or you would see Tina Tutupou both, you know, basically putting their hand on the hip of the tackle and then going off the tackle's movement.

Actually, the stats say it was the first play of the game.

False start, first play of the game on Tobias Raymond.

The next offensive penalty is the illegal formation on the punt in the fourth quarter.

That's on the special teams.

And that's something that we've seen pop up here and there, even in games where they've run the ball well.

There's been some grades and there's been some certainly instances where maybe it's an Alani Noah or maybe it's Tobias Raymond or tends to be the interior, which gives up on some plays and gives up negative yards.

The other thing in this game is that the tight ends also struggled to run block consistently.

There was a couple plays there where they did okay, but they had some bad grades and you could just see it.