The decorated high school All-American from Parkersburg High has heard the low expectations enough that he’s now had enough. WVU’s sophomore left guard believes WVU’s offensive line will be quite good, thank you.

The Mountaineers will begin the season without four players who were together for most of the previous two or three years. That, of course, is a concern and it didn’t really go away during spring and summer practice when WVU made changes all the way through the end of camp and never looked as good as Jenkins prophesizes.

For that, he’d like to explain a few things.

“When you go against the same defense every day, they start to know what you’re going to do,” he said. “You’re in camp, sometimes practicing twice a day, and your legs get tired. You don’t have as much recovery time and the whole situation takes a toll on you.

“When you get a chance to recover and get fresh legs and go against an opponent that doesn’t know you and doesn’t know the calls, you have the edge again.”