CardinalAuthority’s Louisville Season Predictions: Strengths and Worries
- Isaac Brown and Keyjuan Brown give Louisville a high-end running-back tandem, with quarterback Lincoln Kienholz adding enough mobility for the ground game to project among the nation's best.
- Kienholz impressed the staff during fall camp and has ample skill-position support, but he enters the opener without a college start and remains Louisville's largest boom-or-bust offensive variable.
- Preseason All-American Clev Lubin leads a deep Louisville edge rotation that also includes AJ Green, Tyler Thompson, Micah Carter and Jerod Smith.
- Louisville replaced nearly all of its defensive-tackle production through the portal, but the rebuilt group was quiet during fall camp and Jeff Brohm described it as inexperienced.
- Anwar O'Neal's injury setback forced first-team offensive-line changes and reduced Louisville's planned seven- or eight-man rotation to six players entering the opener.
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