Yeah an extra year of experience should greatly help the line as its not typically a position where you can plug and play and have high level performers. It's usually a developmental position.
The not playing CJ Hicks is definitely a stain from an outside perspective. I really hope they rotate this year. This team has way too much talent not to do so.
I think its more of he wants to return kicks/punts and the RB room is the perfect place to learn ball security and such. I don't see him getting snaps at RB. Playing Corner and WR like Hunter is a lot different than RB as WRs don't take punishing hits consistently.
The boards are available to everyone, the chat is general tier and higher only so they could add a general tier chat room to use and get away from Slack.