For the entire fan optimism in regards to the Seattle Seahawks offensive line, the parents over at Professional Soccer Focus aren’t so bullish. The truth is, they assume this unit may very well be extraordinarily dangerous.
Of their unveiling of the 2023 offensive line rankings, PFF positioned the Seahawks at a staggering thirtieth out of 32 groups, forward of solely the Arizona Cardinals and Tennessee Titans. Final yr they have been ranked lifeless final getting into the common season, so enchancment?!
Right here’s their rundown:
Projected Beginning Lineup
LT Charles Cross
LG Damien Lewis
C Evan Brown
RG Phil Haynes – Rotated off the bench at RG in 2022
RT Abraham Lucas
Seattle’s line largely rests on the event of its younger tackles, Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas. Whereas each performed effectively early, every fell off considerably as their rookie seasons wore on.
If these tackles play effectively, this rating is simply too low. But when they don’t enhance, it is a group that might battle badly given its inside personnel.
Greatest Participant: Damien Lewis
Damien Lewis allowed 19 pressures final season and earned the most effective PFF run-blocking grade of the group (66.7).
PFF had the Seahawks OL at twenty seventh of their last rankings for the 2022 season based mostly on their typically cited and closely debated grading system. Damien Lewis had the most effective total grade however nobody else was above 70, and solely Charles Cross and Abe Lucas have been additionally above 60. The departures of Austin Blythe and Gabe Jackson for (based mostly on projections) Evan Brown and Phil Haynes are the main trigger for concern of their eyes. A minimum of this breakdown had the caveat of enchancment for second-year gamers Cross and Lucas, whom it have to be stated had their share of struggles in direction of the top of their respective rookie campaigns however have been undoubtedly web positives given they have been put into Day 1 beginning jobs.
I’d, after all, train warning with rookies Anthony Bradford and Olusegun Oluwatimi ought to both of them (or each) land a beginning job over Haynes and Brown respectively. Seattle considerably caught lightning in a bottle with the moment promise proven by Cross and particularly Lucas, so it’s asking rather a lot for a repeat to occur by gamers drafted in Day 3. However it is a very younger OL unit that has loads of potential to vastly outperform the lowly rating PFF has given them.