Lynch, 29, joined the Magpies as an unrestricted free agent on Tuesday.
This year, the Pies have relied on forward Chris Dawes to play the back up ruck role that was vacated by the retired Leigh Brown at the end of last year.
They believe Lynch, who can play both forward and in the ruck, will provide strong support to Jolly in the dual premiership player's 13th AFL season.
"Quinten has done a lot of ruck work, and he's athletic himself and can run around," football and coaching strategist Rodney Eade told AFL.com.au.
"I think that's going to ease the load on 'Jols'. We think we loaded him to probably the maximum of what we could [this year].
"It was a big load for him to carry and with Lynch coming in, who can ruck more during a game, I think that will share his load a bit … with a view of maybe giving him some breaks and managing him throughout the year."
Jolly missed five games this season -rounds six and seven with an Achilles issue, and he later with groin and general soreness.
Eade said the Pies had been happy with Jolly's form despite the big man, by his own admission, requiring physical management.
"People were questioning his form early in the year, but I thought his form was very good, and in the big games, generally he played pretty well," he said.
"I think we managed him pretty well. He had a couple of minor injuries and we didn't take any chances with him and gave him a couple of weeks off at certain stages.
"I think his form was a real plus, and we were really positive about the way he played and what he did."
Dawes told Collingwood on Wednesday he would explore his options outside the club after the recruitment of Lynch.
Beforehand, Eade said the Pies were confident Dawes could put his disappointing 2012 behind him if he stayed, which the premiership forward's manager Ben Niall later said wasn't out of the question.
"It was a down year for him but he's only 24 and everyone has some bad years at some stage so we'd like to think with his work rate, like Travis [Cloke], he'll be able to turn that around," Eade said.
"He was asked to fill that second ruck role, which was foreign to him.
"Obviously his form wasn't as good as 2010 or 2011 up until he broke his knuckle.
"I think playing a foreign position may have had a bit of an impact on him.
"His ruck work improved by the end of the year but his main bread and butter is his forward play, so we would like to think that will improve now we've got Lynch."
There is also plenty of optimism over the Pies' younger stable of big men, with Jarrod Witts and Corey Gault expected to push for senior selection in 2013.
The highly-touted Witts, 209cm and 113kg, was signed to the Pies under the NSW Scholarship program in 2008 and spent his first full season in the VFL this year.
"He's a good young ruckman but he's still only young so we can't expect the world of him," Eade said.
"He's still learning the game, he's from Sydney, but he was OK in his second year.
"We think next year he would get some senior footy."
Eade also said the Pies had high hopes for Gault, who had put on weight and was capable of playing the role Dawes filled this season.
"He could be that future back-up ruckman as well because he plays centre half-back, centre half-forward," he said.
"We'd be surprised if he didn't play some senior football next year. He's got a good attitude."
Jennifer Witham is a reporter for AFL Media. Follow her on Twitter @AFL_JenWitham.
