Dolphins to move Laremy Tunsil from tackle to guard in 2016

The Miami Dolphins plan to move Laremy Tunsil, one of the top offensive tackles in college football, to the guard spot for the 2016 season.

It was the pick that made everyone watching the 2016 NFL Draft stand up and take notice. The Miami Dolphins took advantage of other teams bypassing former Ole Miss Rebels offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil and selected the star with the 13th pick in the first round.

Rated by many as the top offensive tackles to come out in recent years (and arguably the best player in this year’s NFL Draft), Tunsil fell in part due to a video that was released just before the draft began showing him smoking marijuana through a gas mask several years ago (Tunsil later said his account was hacked, but admitted it was him in the video).

Now it appears the Dolphins are so confident in Laremy Tunsil’s talent at the tackle position that they reportedly are planning on moving him to a new position, according to the Miami Herald’s Armando Salguero reporting what he has heard from team sources:

"He’s going to be a starting guard by the time the 2016 NFL season rolls around. That is assuming both of Miami’s tackles stay healthy. And if the worst happens with either Branden Albert at left tackle or Ja’Wuan James at right tackle, then Tunsil will be the candidate to fill the vacancy at either spot."

Albert was selected to the Pro Bowl last season, but is also just over a year removed from major knee surgery that knocked him out for the second half of the 2014 season. At 31 years of age (and a former offensive guard himself for a time in college at Virginia), it strikes some Dolphins fans as odd that you wouldn’t put your best player at the position most responsbile for trying to keep quarterback Ryan Tannehill from being sacked.

Laremy Tunsil will get a chance to show Dolphins fans he was the best option when, barring major injury, he is in the starting lineup for the 2016 season opener when Miami travels to take on the Seattle Seahawks on September 11th.

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