I had heard Thursday or Friday that Tretter was having problems in 1 on 1 drills. From my perspective Linsley has been the guy for this position here's why. Linsley played power football at Center in the big 10 on a very good Big 10 team. Tretter has never played Center anywhere on any level, any conference. Tretter was injured last year, and I have to wonder if we're getting a good solid player that had a freak injury or Justin Harrell with him. I'm willing to give him 2 pre-season games to prove himself, but if he can't you have to go with Linsley I believe. I also do not believe Garth Gerhart is the answer for the simple reason that the only thing the JS could say positive about him is his number of benchpresses at the combine. BTW of the 3 Linsley had a slightly higher Wunderlic, though I doubt that matters much during a game.
I think we'll all agree that job #1 is keeping Aaron Rodgers off the obituary page, and whether that's Tretter, Linsley, Gerhart, Koppen, Satele, or someone else, I'm all for it.
I am very concerned about this position enough to wonder if we couldn't move Bakhtiari and Sitton in a spot and put Sherrod at LT in an emergency to shore up this position while we were training someone (Satele or Koppen are my suggestions) in our offense.
Also is Barclay an option at Center? Or is he strictly G/T?