UCLA Football: Projecting the starting lineup for 2018

Go Joe Bruin takes a look at possible starting lineups on special teams, defense and offense for the UCLA Football team in 2018.

With the end of the college football season comes the offseason and in the offseason many teams make several big changes. For the UCLA football team, they made the biggest change a month ago when they fired Jim Mora and replaced him with Chip Kelly.

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Since then, Kelly has slowly been assembling his new squad (coaches and players) while interim head coach Jedd Fisch handled the final duties to wrap up the season, specifically with the Cactus Bowl.

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Well the Cactus Bowl is over, UCLA lost and we can now move into the Chip Kelly era with a fresh new slate.

So what can we expect from the UCLA football team in 2018?

We already know what most of his coaching staff will look like, but what about his roster, specifically the starting line up?

In the last week we have heard from a number of players on whether they are entering the NFL Draft or returning. So far, QB Josh Rosen, WR Jordan Lasley, OT Kolton Miller and TE Austin Roberts have all declared for the draft. The starters that are graduating include C Scott Quessenberry, WR Darren Andrews, DT Jacob Tuioti-Mariner, LB Kenny Young and S Jaleel Wadood.

That is a lot of players to account for, luckily the Bruins in the Mora era recruited well and next year we will see a lot of young talent emerge, especially in the starting lineup.

So let us take a look at the opinion-based projections from the writers of Go Joe Bruin…