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PFF ranks projected Seahawks offensive line as worst in the NFL
Professional Soccer Focus launched their offensive line rankings for the 2022 NFL season. Clearly we’re not even in coaching camp but so these are all simply projected beginning lineups, however for the Seattle Seahawks the projected OL consists of rookie tackles Charles Cross and Abe Lucas, guards Damien Lewis and Gabe Jackson, and new middle Austin Blythe.
PFF ranks primarily based on their proprietary grading system and different information they’ve, and maybe unsurprisingly the Seahawks are at all-time low.
32. Seattle Seahawks
Projected Beginning Lineup
LT: Charles Cross
LG: Damien Lewis
C: Austin Blythe
RG: Gabe Jackson
RT: Abraham Lucas
There’s fairly clearly a variety of hope for the long run with the expertise Seattle has introduced into the fold, however this has crash-and-burn potential. Beginning two rookie offensive tackles — each from Air Raid offenses — is a scary proposition. And contemplating Gabe Jackson’s decline lately, there’s not a single high quality starter this unit can depend on.
They create up Gabe Jackson’s decline, and that’s primarily based off PFF grades. Jackson’s three lowest-graded years are in these previous three seasons, and his 63.6 within the 2021 season was his second worst thus far. Damien Lewis had only a 57.1 grade moved out to left guard, down from his 70.2 as a rookie proper guard. Blythe barely performed in 2021 however he did have a 69.3 grade in 2020, his lone 12 months as a full-time beginning middle. In 2019 he was a fairly weak 50.2 splitting his time at middle and proper guard whereas with the Los Angeles Rams.
Cross and Lucas might need graded nicely in school however that’s school, and rookie tackles most of the time seem like rookies over the course of a season.
The optimist says this Seahawks OL with the younger gamers on the squad — Lewis, Cross, Lucas, perhaps even Jake Curhan — might be good down the road. Realistically they doubtless will likely be unhealthy in 2022, however we’re battle-tested followers who know a factor or two about wretched play. This could possibly be unhealthy with a payoff of being good later, versus that 2016-2017 group that made you query whether or not there was an effort to get Russell Wilson and each working again on the squad maimed.
By the best way, final 12 months PFF truly had Seattle’s OL a mediocre however hardly embarrassing nineteenth coming into the season. I feel we’d have a good time a top-20 end given how a lot inexperience could possibly be on this 12 months’s beginning lineup.