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Figuring out which offensive line transfers will be the most impactful isn’t always easy, but here are a few key ones for 2025.

In college football’s transfer portal era, offensive linemen are the hardest players to sort out.

All transfers involve risk because what works at one school has no guarantee of working at another. But offensive line play is so schematically variable across schools and so dependent on each unit’s cohesiveness that coaches and personnel staffers are often shooting in the dark when they identify transfer targets.

“You can’t portal an offensive line” is approaching “they could call holding on every play” levels of cliché. 

Indeed, it’s hard. But every year, teams try and a few are even successful. Teams that find one or two good transfers and plug them into an already-functional system have the best chance of success, but not every team has that luxury. The 2025 season, from the playoff race to the coach carousel, will hinge on how well a handful of teams manage to move pieces around a very finicky chessboard. 

With that in mind, there are four offensive linemen in particular with a lot on their plates. Their performances will help figure out who contends for the national championship and who might be looking for a new coach. 

The Four Most Interesting Offensive Linemen in College Football in 2025

C Luke Petitbon, Florida State 

The 2024 Seminoles had many disastrous qualities, but a lot of them flowed from having one of the worst offensive lines a blue-blood program has ever put on the field. Ideally, a program of FSU’s stature would not allow 49 sacks – third-most out of 134 FBS teams. And yet that’s exactly what the Seminoles did.

Sometimes things don’t work out how you envision. 

With his career on the line, Mike Norvell is doing the one thing he’s proven he can do: find help in the transfer portal. That worked out great in 2023 when FSU went undefeated and was robbed of a playoff spot. It worked out horribly in last year’s 2-10 encore. In 2025, FSU may field a starting offensive line with five transfers from various classes. It’s debatable which one is most important, but let’s focus on Petitbon, who arrives from Wake Forest and will be the de facto captain in the middle of the line. 

Petitbon was an honorable mention All-ACC player for the Demon Deacons last year and probably deserved more than that. His 2.8% pressure rate allowed was the best among ACC centers who played at least 300 snaps, and his 4.0% run disruption rate allowed was just a whisker off the top spot.

He allowed exactly two quarterback knockdowns on 286 pass protection reps. Though a center can only help pass protection so much, Petitbon’s solid play as a run blocker and pass protector bodes well. 

If Petitbon is one of the best centers in the country, FSU will have a critical building block for a rebound. If not, the chances of a Norvell firing go way up. 

OT Isaiah World, Oregon 

World was a developmental project who was ranked the 138th-best player in California in high school and then spent four seasons at Nevada. By the end of last year, he was one of the most sought-after players in the country. Most evaluators thought he was the best offensive lineman in the portal. 

After the season, Oregon had both one of the most powerful NIL operations in college football and a spot at left tackle vacated by All-American Josh Conerly Jr., whom the Washington Commanders picked 29th in the NFL Draft.

Anyway, World now plays for Oregon. The Ducks had a few iffy line games early last season, particularly when they shuffled players around and struggled with Idaho and Boise State, but the position group has generally been a great strength under Dan Lanning and coordinator Will Stein.

Top-quality protection has allowed the Ducks to churn out a succession of prolific quarterbacks and running backs. Dante Moore and Makhi Hughes will get most of the attention among high-impact Oregon offensive transfers, but World will be foundational to whatever the Ducks do in 2025.

His 3.3% pressure rate allowed was second-best in the Mountain West, and his 3.0% run disruption rate allowed was fourth. 

OT Pat McMurtrie, James Madison 

It’s June, but if you asked me to pick the best challenger to Boise State for the Group of Five’s spot in the College Football Playoff, I’d lean toward James Madison. 

The Dukes took a very slight step back in 2024 after losing coach Curt Cignetti and most of their great players to Indiana. But JMU still won nine games, dropped 70 points on North Carolina, and looked like the best team in the Sun Belt for much of the season. Much of that success stemmed from the line: JMU’s 30.8% run disruption rate allowed was fourth-best in the G5, and its 26.2% pressure rate allowed was four points better than average.

The Dukes had two first-team All-Sun Belt linemen. One of them, program starts leader Cole Potts, ran out of eligibility. But the other, McMurtrie, is back. The right tackle came with coach Bob Chesney from Holy Cross and did not leave after his first FBS season. 

In 2024, McMurtrie allowed just two adjusted sacks (plays in which a defender achieves a pressure on a sack play, even if that defender does not record the sack), and his 4.6% pressure rate allowed was second-best among Sun Belt tackles playing at least 300 snaps. His 3.1% run disruption rate was fifth.

He’s a complete lineman, and with Potts, the star right guard, gone, McMurtrie’s elite play will be all the more critical to JMU’s efforts to conquer the Sun Belt and push for a playoff spot. 

OT Derek Simmons, Oklahoma 

Brent Venables is the season’s most obvious put-up-or-shut-up coach. He’s had three seasons in Norman, and two of them have been mediocre. The Sooners did not come to the SEC to be average, and this offseason, they’ve showered resources and players upon Venables.

The Sooners got one of the most desired offensive coordinators in Ben Arbuckle. They got several of the best transfers available, including quarterback John Mateer (who comes with ready-made experience in Arbuckle’s offense at Washington State) and running back Jaydn Ott. They put a whole new front office infrastructure around Venables, too, to help him manage the massive project that is Oklahoma football. 

None of it will work if Oklahoma’s offensive line continues to stink. The Sooners tied for last in the FBS with 50 sacks ceded, even more than the dreadful FSU offense. All of their peripheral numbers were bad. The line’s poor play had to be a personal insult to line coach Bill Bedenbaugh, who has decades of experience as one of the best and most respected people doing his job. 

But Oklahoma has responded by grabbing a handful of reinforcements ahead of the season.

I’m intrigued by Simmons, a potential left or right tackle who’s had a three-level, four-school career. He began his career in 2020 as a backup at Division II Tusculum. He spent one year at FCS Abilene Christian, then three more at that level at Western Carolina. Now in his sixth season, he’s playing in the SEC and might be one of the handful of players who determine if Oklahoma will pay tens of millions of dollars to fire its coach.

College football, everyone. 

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