On one of Twitter college football stat accounts, they had him the highest rated Big 12 Center.
What's honestly crazy about that is he only played the spot for exactly one year and already drew such high accolades. Pretty big testament to Dickey's work in insisting all of the O-line basically be able to play all spots along the line.
Oddly enough they were in this same situation almost the same time of year last year because two Juco signings weren't up to speed yet. So they moved Risner and inserted Navjar. It had its growing pains early but holy cow they molded that unit into a machine pretty darn quickly.
Its a blow, but sure does seem like they generally manage to find guys to step up rather quickly and well