Offensive tackle is one of the SEC’s deepest positions heading into the 2015 season. Here’s a few of the most talented players — and future draft picks — in the trenches:

Just missed the cut: Coleman Thomas, Tennessee; Brandon Shell, South Carolina; Dan Skipper, Arkansas; Shon Coleman, Auburn; Brian Wallace, Arkansas; Vadal Alexander, LSU; Martez Ivey, Florida (true frosh)

5. Germain Ifedi, Texas A&M: This mountainous blocker has 24 career starts under his belt at right tackle heading into his redshirt junior season and could make the move to the left side this fall to replace Cedric Ogbuehi. Ifedi protected Johnny Manziel as a freshman in 2013 as the Aggies nearly toppled several program records set the previous year for total offense. Draft-eligible after last season, Ifedi declined early entry to finish his degree in construction science and perhaps improve his stock to a lottery grade.

4. Jerald Hawkins, LSU: One of four returning starters up front for the Tigers, Hawkins is a lesser-known redshirt junior who will slide from right to left tackle this fall to help LSU absorb the loss of La’el Collins. Hawkins has had a great spring, slightly better than left guard-turned-right tackle Vadal Alexander depending on who you ask. A two-year starter, Hawkins will try and help the Tigers improve on 26 sacks allowed — ninth-most in the SEC last fall — and clear the way for sensational sophomore Leonard Fournette.

3. John Theus, Georgia: The most veteran player in this group, Theus has 35 career starts to his credit as a dominant right tackle. Theus became just the third true freshman to start at offensive tackle in a season opener for Georgia since freshmen became eligible in 1973. Now, he’s one of four returning starters along arguably the SEC’s best front.

2. Laremy Tunsil, Ole Miss: Can Tunsil return to superhuman status from a broken leg? If any towering tackle can, it’s him, a two-time All-SEC selection in Oxford who is the centerpiece of a unit returning all five starters this fall. Rarely beaten off the edge, Tunsil is a lean 305 pounds with great feet. He’s one of three Rebels up front who has missed all of spring practice due to injury, but few Tunsil’s skillset isn’t expected to diminish upon his return in August.

1. Cam Robinson, Alabama: This rising sophomore for the Crimson Tide may have the highest ceiling of any player in the league, a future cornerstone tackle in the NFL. The 6-foot-6, 325-pounder was an early enrollee as a true freshman and locked down a starting position by the opener, developing into a rookie All-American by season’s end. Few players are equally agile with Robinson’s size. He’ll be draft-eligible at the end of the 2016 season, which means Robinson is likely a lottery pick in 2017 if he stays healthy and continues on an upward slope. It’ll be quite a treat for SEC fans this season watching Tunsil and Robinson go toe-to-toe each week for tackle supremacy against some of the nation’s most athletic pass rushers.