Analyzing The 2007 UGA Recruiting Class: Offensive Line

Georgia has apparently wrapped up a solid 23-player recruiting class set to sign their letters of intent on Wednesday.

This article continues a six-part series analyzing this recruiting class over the next two days before the AOL Georgia Fanhouse stops being updated, although AOL will still provided quality national college football blogs.

• Offensive Line

Need: Due to poor recruiting in this area over the last four years and some bad luck with injuries, Georgia may have never had a positional recruiting need as important as the offensive line was in this class.

With only three players who have ever been in an SEC snap slated to return at the start of next season and only six players on the current roster - including three lightly recruited freshmen who redshirted this fall - back for opening day 2007, Georgia needed several newcomers to arrive this spring and compete for starting jobs, or at least playing time.

The Bulldogs also wanted 2-4 offensive linemen in this class to redshirt and add solid depth in the trenches for the future.

Committed: OG Justin Anderson (6-5, 320, enrolled for spring), OT Clint Boling (6-5, 275), OT Antwane Greenlee (6-6, 300), C/OG Ben Harden (6-4, 290), OG/OT Scott Haverkamp (6-5, 300, JUCO transfer enrolled for spring with two years of eligibility), OG Tanner Strickland (6-4, 315, enrolled for spring), OT Trinton Sturdivant (6-4, 285, enrolled for spring), OT Vince Vance (6-7, 300, JUCO transfer enrolled for spring with three years of eligibility remaining)

Analysis: Put me down on record as saying this will be the best group of offensive linemen ever signed in one class by Georgia, especially if the Bulldogs can add future college All-America selection A.J. Harmon in the 2008 recruiting class to this fine group.

Please do not judge this group by how they play in 2007. Offensive linemen should never be expected to contribute in their first season on campus in the SEC. Unfortunately, the Bulldogs will likely have 2-3 immediate starters and 4-6 on the two-deep depth chart for 2007 from this class.

Watch for Vance, Haverkamp and maybe Anderson to start this fall. But Greenlee and Sturdivant could easily end up the top players from this group in 2-4 years.

Grade: A+