I think we need starters at each position but also more than minimal playing time for backups so we avoid the situation next year we have now: an inexperienced OL.
LT Fisher
LG Patterson
C Correll
RG Madden
RT Lugg
Fisher needs all the playing time he can get as a true freshman, but Spindler, Baker, Carroll [if healthy], Dirksen [if worthy], Carmody, and Kristofic need to be developed through actual playing time. Lugg and Madden are gone next year, and probably Patterson if he plays well. So again we'd be back to an inexperienced OL again unless Quinn finds a way to get other guys in the OL rotation for development. Can't rotate as liberally as the DL, but more rotation than we've seen in the past seems necessary for development. I think actual game experience is the key to final development and to an ongoing commitment to the program. Also, it seems to me that if the starters have not clearly sorted themselves out on the OL by now, it means we have some pretty good back up talent, which means the back up talent must be developed [and kept happy in the program] through playing time. We don't want to keep losing seasoned OL players to the transfer portal.