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2025 Rice Football Season Preview: Offensive Line

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Next up in our 2025 Rice Football Season Preview: offensive line. Here’s our breakdown of the Owls’ plans for the group this season.

A new Rice football offensive scheme means a reworked offensive line, which will be asked to operate much differently than the unit was a season ago when Rice ran a more West Coast style of offense. While that was a tall order when head coach Scott Abell arrived, it’s been nothing but glowing endorsements of the progress made by the players they inherited in the offensive trenches to this point. Abell has continued to reiterate how optimistic he is about this unit.

Rice Football Preseason Preview: Check out the rest of the series here.

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Rice Football Recruiting: OL Colter Alberding commits to Owls

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More reinforcement up front is on the way for the 2025 Rice Football recruiting class. Allen offensive lineman Colter Alberding has committed to the Owls.

Many of the surnames in the 2025 Rice Football recruiting class will be new to fans. This most recent addition won’t. Allen offensive lineman and Rice legacy Colter Alberding has committed to the Owls.

Colter is the son of defensive lineman Shawn Alberding, a standout defensive lineman for the Owls in the early 1990s. He won the Jess Neely award, given annually to the team’s top defensive lineman, on two occasions. His son will follow in his footsteps, albeit on the other side of the line of scrimmage.

Colter picked Rice over offers from Texas State, Marshall, Tulsa, Arkansas State and others.

A tackle in high school, the plan as of now is for him to transition to the interior of the line at the next level. The Rice staff views him as a potential option at center in the long-term.

Wherever he lines up, Alberding told The Roost he’s excited about the direction the program is already headed. “I also like how Rice has been consistently improving over the years,” he said. “I wanted to be a part of the group to put Rice on the map again.”

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Even for those who don’t grind offensive lineman tape every day, Alberding stands out on film. That’s what elite high school linemen are supposed to do. He’s a people mover in the trenches who uses his 6-foot-3, 296-pound frame to make room in the run game and protect his quarterback. He’ll be starting from a strong foundation when he arrives on South Main.



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