CEDAR CITY, Utah - Every position on the football field is important. Even if you don't see it on a box score, the offensive line is arguably the most important one. For the Thunderbirds, the offensive line is coming together through a few weeks of Fall Camp and the group of young athletes are finding their way.

"It starts with us," SUU offensive line coach Aaron Fernandez said. "If we're executing, then our whole offense is going to be executing. If we're having up and down moments, then our whole offense will do the same. We take a lot of pride of that in the o-line room, knowing that it all starts with us and it all ends with us."

Fernandez believes that you have to have the right mindset to play on the offensive line, and that starts with doing everything you can for the betterment of the team.

"We've got to make sure we have no problem being unselfish, that's our mindset," Fernandez said. "At the end of the day, if you're getting noticed as an offensive lineman that's a bad thing. We want to not go noticed, we want to do all the little things, and you've got to want to do that stuff, you've got to want to play o-line. As long as you've got that mindset, then you're not too worried about accolades and getting your name in the paper. We're trying to go unnoticed, that's our job."

Overall, the offensive line for the Thunderbirds is a relatively young group. Looking at the roster there are seven freshmen, four sophomores, four juniors and one senior.

"I love my group," Fernandez said. "We've got a good mix. We have some players that are experienced with long careers ahead of them, and they're mixed with a lot of freshmen we're going to count on too. The group as a whole have been working their butts off. They have a hard hat mentality and they've been coming to work and learning."

With the youth movement happening on the o-line, there isn't a whole lot of experience. However, those that have been given the opportunity have made the most of it and are proving themselves.

"They've made a full 360 evolution," Fernandez said. "You've got Josh Anderson and Zach Larsen, those guys started every game last year as freshmen, so with reps and experience their game has turned a new corner and they're getting better at technical things they weren't comfortable with last year. Austin Mikkelson is the only guy in the room that has over 20 starts under his belt, and his game continues to improve. He's a swing guy that's playing guard and tackle, he's that versatile. Those type of guys are who we're leaning on right now."

As far as newcomers go, there have been a number of guys that have caught their coaches' attention.

"Josh McMillin is doing a heck of a job," he said. "We moved him in the Spring to left tackle from tight end, and he's held that left tackle spot down. He's a very technical player, very smart. Braxton Jones coming out of nowhere as a true freshman has had an excellent camp so far, just learning and he hasn't had his head spin too much with all of the installs. Dylan Tucker is a guy that can swing from tackle to guard, and Marquez Tucker is a junior college transfer who's holding the right tackle spot down right now for the ones."

Coach Fernandez isn't quite ready to put pen to paper when it comes to his starting rotation, but over the next couple weeks he expects the groups to become more clear.

"We're trying to see who the dependable guys are, that's our goal right now, then we'll start really penciling in who the starters will be," Fernandez said. "Obviously those guys that have the experience, we anticipate they'll be in the starting rotation, but nothing is set in stone and that depth chart is always changing."

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