I just don't understand how you could consider Hunt's mediocre performance our "best lineman by far". Even the always amusing PFF site only gave him a 65.8 score and charged him with 3 sacks and 8 (!!!) penalties in limited duty. This wasn't good...
His skillset is mauling and run-blocking... he's a Guard on any team that doesn't run a right-handed power rushing scheme. On the Titans, he could be a Right Tackle.
He's also slightly overaged for a rookie...
edit: PFF's raw scores for our linemen:
Austin Jackson 848 snaps, 5 penalties, 4 sacks, 52.3 score
Ereck Flowers 857, 3, 5, 65.9
Ted Karras 1068, 3, 2, 65.3
Solomon Kindley 748, 5, 4, 51.3
Robert Hunt 722, 8, 3, 65.8
Jesse Davis 1055, 2, 1, 62.6
Hunt received the least snaps, but had the most penalties, and his three sacks came at about the same rate as the others. For the life of me, I can't see how Hunt's performance was better than mediocre. Flowers had the best score, and Davis was clearly the most disciplined... and even Kindley and Jackson managed to score well enough while playing injured for many weeks-- Hunt came in healthy when the NFL players were starting to get beat up.
If there is logic is calling Hunt 'best lineman by far', I sure can't see it. Maybe we can call him, the one rookie who was not battling a foot injury?