How does Kentucky Dylan Ray transf on the offensive 2025 line of Minnesota?

The transfer of Kentucky Dylan Ray was one of the three offensive linens that Minnesota added from the portal this winter. With several years of experience in several positions, it brings a set of unique skills to the offensive line of Gophers in 2025.

Coming from Noblesville, Indiana, Ray was a practically unknown recruit of high school in the 2021 class. Without any offer of division I, he chose to join West Virginia as a favorite walk (PWO). After Redshiring his first season, he saw 32 snapshots in 2022, all arriving at the right guard.

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After two seasons in Morgantown, Ray was transferred to Kentucky, where he made 10 openings in 2023 and played 621 total snapshots. Nine of those openings arrived in the left guard and one in the right guard. He obtained a general rating of 55.1, according to PRO Football Focus (PFF). It remained a key piece of Kentucky’s offensive line in 2024, registering 411 total snapshots, mainly in the left guard, and ending with a rating of 61.7 pff.

List at 6 feet 6 inches, 310 pounds, Ray will now compete for an initial role with the Gophers in 2025. It is classified as the 28th best interior offensive liner on the transfer portal, according to 247Sports, and 56º best, according to ON3.

Ashton Beers returns with 534 snapshots of experience in the right guard, which makes Ray the favorite to start in the left guard. If there is a surprise holder in the offensive line in 2025, it could be in the left guard. Young people returned as Tony Nelson, Nathan Roy and Brett Carroll are three Minnesota values players, and Ray could face their competition for the game time.

Ray’s professional trajectory is very similar to that of former Gophers Karter Shaw transferred, who had two years of production in the Utah state before becoming an offensive lin in Minnesota for three seasons. The most likely scenario is that Ray begins in the left guard in 2025, while Minnesota develops her first year students, but will have to win her place.

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