When you don’t have a sophomore better than Dayne Davis and John Campbell, you’ve got either an evaluations / recruiting problem or a development problem. I’ll even throw Karic in there. If we had excellent starters, sure of course there wouldn’t be younger players better than them. The three I just mentioned are merely serviceable at best. If your evals are good and your coaching is good, a sophomore should be capable of at least splitting time.
Yes, OL is a developmental position, but where is the evidence we’re developing anyone? This isn’t the old days where only juniors and seniors are physically developed enough to play on the OL. Plenty of young offensive linemen making contributions out there these days.