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Both Bitonio and Corbett were left tackles at Nevada (back-to-back) so you're correct there.
I think there's a difference between a depth OL and someone you're asking to contribute immediately. For Forbes, we have the luxury of time. He doesn't have to contribute meaningful snaps this year, so let's move him around. A backup should be able to play more than one position in case of injury, and it also lets you see where Forbes fits best.
My main counter to this would be the fact that the Browns ended up starting an undrafted rookie left tackle who was clearly overwhelmed physically and mentally to play the position for half the season. How much of that falls on Hue/Wylie over the front office, I don't know.
But it still seems absolutely crazy to me that the Browns would opt to start Harrison at LT with literally zero preseason snaps against a 1st team DE over actually trying the 33rd pick of the draft at the position he played his entire college career or even opting to stick with the Bitonio LT/Corbett LG combo we saw during the preseason.
Then a year later you have these "why not try a guy at his natural position first?" remarks from Dorsey and it's just kind of an eye roll kind of thing for me.