There has been an interior lineman (guard or center) drafted in the first round every season since 2001. So how have they done? What kind of future could we expect of our very own round 1 selection at Guard?

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Here are the interior offensive linemen taken in round 1 since 2001.

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I listed Gallery because he ultimately became a guard, and Albert because he was a guard when he was drafted. If you take them out and say they don’t really qualify because they weren’t drafted as guards to play guard, then it’s a very impressive list (even w/them it’s impressive):

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22 total Pro-Bowl selections among them

33% of them have been First Team All-Pro selections

40% of them have been to multiple Pro-Bowls

47% of them have been to at least 1 Pro-Bowl

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All of them were instant starters for the teams who drafted them, and played out their careers as starters.

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Obviously, as the folks who sell mutual funds say, “past performance is no guarantee of future performance”, but... it’s pretty promising indeed for Zeitler.