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town123 said

Hi Dan. I thought this was an interesting question from the other thread by shortFused9.

Caesar Ruiz. What do you feel is the best course of action, Move him to Center, Stay at OG, trade him? I get the abbreviated off-season of 2020 hindered a possible switch to Center, but given his turn at Center I liked him better at Guard. He's been a turnstile at times and gets bullrushed into the play he does work well in double teams and I think I've seen a few good kickout blocks out of him so it's a mystery why he's such a roller coaster you see flashes but then you see head scratches. What should be done

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I don't think you move him to center because I'm too high on McCoy there. I hope he's Jamies's center for the next 10 years.

With Ruiz, he was definitely disappointing last season, but I'm not ready to give up on him. I would like to see him face some competition. If the Saints had been able to keep the 3rd and 4th (I am not saying I was against that trade), I would have loved them to grab an interior guy in the mid rounds to compete with Ruiz.

I'm sure there are some free agent guards available who could come in and push him, if there isn't already one on the roster. But who knows--maybe he'll benefit from having a consistently healthy OL around him. All that said, I still think it's too early to toss him to the trash heap, but he definitely needs to step up and earn his dinner.