Ravens’ Tyler Linderbaum is as competitive as they come: ‘He just won’t allow himself to fail’

The team stretch was over and the Solon High School football squad started to break into its position groups. “‘But put your hard hat on and go over there with the big uglies.’” Linderbaum wasn’t the only one who didn’t initially view himself as a center. “I’d be like, ‘I’m done,’ and I’d go take a five-minute walk and then come back in,” Linderbaum said. You’d see Tyler contorted and bent and he finds a way to have really impressive power.” By the following year, Linderbaum was the starting center for a program that breeds quality NFL offensive linemen. Ferentz, a former offensive line coach in Baltimore, once described Linderbaum as being “too good to be true.” Still, early on in his college career, his teammates didn’t have a good read on him.