Kohler is with Ossai now

TierbsHsotBoobs

Erik Kohler, a two-year starter on Washington’s offensive line, has taken a medical retirement.

“My body just couldn’t do it any more,” Kohler told The Seattle Times on Thursday.

As a redshirt junior, Kohler appeared in five games for UW in 2013, including two starts at left guard. He started five games as a true freshman for the Huskies in 2010 and had a streak of 20 consecutive starts from 2010 to 2012, mostly at right tackle, before a series of injuries derailed his career.

He will remain on scholarship and plans to finish his UW undergraduate degree later this year, but he won’t count against the NCAA limit of 85 scholarships.

“My body is definitely happier (now),” he said. “But I’ve been playing football since my freshman year in high school, and I’ve been an athlete all my life, and there isn’t really anything that can prepare you for this.”

Kohler, listed at 6-feet-4, 294 pounds, was considered one of the nation’s top five high school guards coming out of Oaks Christian High (Calif.) in the Class of 2010. He chose UW over Notre Dame, arriving in Seattle — along with touted quarterback Nick Montana, an Oaks Christian teammate — with much fanfare.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/huskyfootball/2014/01/09/uw-offensive-lineman-erik-kohler-takes-medical-retirement/

PostGameOrangeSlices

Great player development as always, Sark

NeGgaPlEaSe

T's & P's scout.com ranking of Christan Oaks players

CuntWaffle

Montana and Kohler might have been the greatest recruiting package for UW ever.

RaccoonHarry

He'll be fine. I'm sure he has a nice, cushy job waiting in his dad's faucet company.

Dardanus

Good luck to ye, Erik. I'm sure you'll find yourself a happy and healthy career of letting people go past you. A traffic cop or a wal mart greeter would be ideal.

Meek

Colin Porter approves this thread about Sark and player development as well as the recruiting promise "come with us and you'll play early."

MikeDamone

medical retirement? Does he get a full pension?

TTJ

Another winner of the SarkNeedlesslyWastedMyRedshirtAndAllIGotWasThisSeasonCareerEndingSurgery Award.

bananasnblondes

Erik Kohler got worse every year he was here. It didn't help that he started out looking like a kid who probably plays magic cards and wears an oversized T-shirt when he goes swimming. My friend had the same haircut as him in 7th grade in 1993

RoadDawg55

Kohler was as bad as any 2008 lineman when he played RT in 2011. As Bananasnblondes noted, Kohler looked like a fat, middle school skater douche, not an offensive lineman. Sark's player development has been suspect, but like Potato'e, I'm not sure Kohler was any good to begin with.

HeretoBeatmyChest

RoadDawg55 said:

Kohler was as bad as any 2008 lineman when he played RT in 2011. As Bananasnblondes noted, Kohler looked like a fat, middle school skater douche, not an offensive lineman. Sark's player development has been suspect, but like Potato'e, I'm not sure Kohler was any good to begin with.

Kohler actually played very well his first few games. He was thrown in against Nebraska and did pretty well. Did he play guard then? Then he got pneumonia or something and missed a few games and the OL was noticeably worse. In 2011 he was awful as a tackle.

RoadDawg55

HeretoBeatmyChest said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Kohler was as bad as any 2008 lineman when he played RT in 2011. As Bananasnblondes noted, Kohler looked like a fat, middle school skater douche, not an offensive lineman. Sark's player development has been suspect, but like Potato'e, I'm not sure Kohler was any good to begin with.

Kohler actually played very well his first few games. He was thrown in against Nebraska and did pretty well. Did he play guard then? Then he got pneumonia or something and missed a few games and the OL was noticeably worse. In 2011 he was awful as a tackle.

Yes, against Nebraska he played guard. I do agree he would have been much better at guard, but I don't think he was ever any good. I think fans were excited to see a highly touted guy and were impressed he was playing as a true freshman (same with Potoae starting a few games as a freshman).

Kohler's biography on gohuskies says he missed the ASU and OSU games because of mono. Polk had over 100 yards in both of those games, and Locker one of his best games against Oregon State. We The OL was the worst against Stanford when Porter started at RG and Kohler was at RT.

Doogles

Kohler was good against Nebraska. I remember the broadcast pumping up one of their all-american DL (Crick?) and the very next play he got pancaked by true frosh Kohler.

He definitely had the tools, maybe not the heart to overcome adversity at this level, but he was one ball of dough that could have been molded with the right coach.

unfrozencaveman

3 star vs 4 star vs diamond in the rough 2 star

Looking for OKG's, period. Which starts with mental toughness

whatshouldicareabout

He did not have nice hips.

BayDawg

Meek said:

Colin Porter approves this thread about Sark and player development as well as the recruiting promise "come with us and you'll play early."

...and you won't be able to lift your fucking right arm when your 25.

TheHB

Lookit, this bashing of players has got to end. Parents and family members of recruits come here to find out what's happening with Husky football, plumber-approved bathroom fixtures, SEC cheerleaders and catch phrases from eight years ago that were funny the first 23 times. This grab-ass buffoonery just turns them off and it's high time that some of you grow up. If you are going to continue with the name-calling and immature comments, you will quickly find yourself on the outside looking in.

Let's clean it up guys.