Im surprised Fluker is the front runner, even with the vaunted weightloss he moves like a cargo ship. Maybe hes just so big alongside Zeus that theres no way around him.
i worry about him too - some of the tape from last year is really worrying - but maybe the weightloss has helped
its hard not to view him as the front runner though given that until today he'd taken basically all the reps with the 1s (or so it's been suggested)
i think maybe the other options havent really been viable - it was either 2 rookies one who was converting to guard from tackle (and swapping sides), the other who's got nice feet but very short arms and no real standout athletic traits (but has consistency on tape) or it was ben powers who seems to have vanished - i thought he played really well against the steelers in week 17 but i guess the fact that he was splitting time with a nobody should have been a sign then that he wasnt the future
i think it probably helps fluker that at least in the right-handed running scheme we've had here for a long time (partly because of yanda in the first place) we anchor the run game behind what happens on the right side which makes, at least in the running game, his slow feet less of an issue
but the worry is that the ease with which he could be beaten last year by lateral agility stays with him - and the signs arent great with him getting beaten by calais
the positive is that it sounds like tyre phillips is making strides - he's someone i would have been fascinated to see play a ton of RG in any preseason games we might have had