I'm really starting to get excited about this game.
We have never beaten Collaras...he is 3-0 against us...with a win when he was with Toronto and two wins against us playbing for Hamilton.
Tough that Menard will likely not take reps and that Brooks will not play. Hoping Bryant Turner Jr. can have another good game. I liked Hudson's play for his first game for our Leos.
I'm surprised that we will start 36 year old, 300 pound O'Neil again at left guard rather than the talented Steward, at 323 pounds. Steward goes to backup lineman for his second game in a row.
Steward was first round draft choice of our Leos and he started and played impressively at left tackle for us for 7 games in 2014. Though Steward only had two years of college experience playing left tackle, he didn’t allow a sack during his career at Liberty.
Published on: May 31, 2016 | Last Updated: May 31, 2016
Hunter Steward, the B.C. Lions’ first-round draft pick in 2013, moves from left tackle to guard this year.
Steward is every inch a prototypical left tackle — the position he played when the Lions drafted him from Liberty University and their starting LT in training camp last year — before he broke his foot on the second day of camp.
“How are we going to get bigger?” asks head coach Wally Buono. “We want to be more physical. We’re worried about 2016. We’re not worried about next year.”
Some feel that Steward eventually will return to his natural position. In the meantime, it’s no piece of cake, learning a new position, but he has Dorazio there to help him.
“It’s something different, something new,” Steward said. “I’ve never played guard before. You just have to embrace it. I’ve been in Surrey (practice facility) the whole winter, learning from Dan. At first, I was a little apprehensive. But, in the grand scheme of things, it adds to my value, to be able to play another position.”
Hunter Steward is a mean, aggressive, athletic offensive lineman. Wally said he wanted a bigger, more aggressive offensive line this
Travis Lulay has a high opinion of Sterd:
“It’s a good sign when you look at a big dude like Hunter and figure he’s 300 pounds. Then he tells you he’s 330 pounds,” quarterback Travis Lulay says of the six-foot-seven tackle. “He carries his weight really well. When you see him pull to make blocks, and do footwork drills, he’s not a slow, lumbering guy. He’s a pretty explosive, athletic player
My guess is that Steward is still working on the transition to guard but he falls into the category of aggressive, big, mean like Vaillencourt and Adcock..... and Steward is the most athletic of all of our offensive lineman.
I still believe our best staring offensive line lineup will be Olofiye, Steward, Husband, Vaillencourt, Adcock when all are healthy.
"When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team". (George Raveling)
