Through Week 2, the Philadelphia Eagles maintain their No. 1 spot in the offensive line rankings, while the Kansas City Chiefs move up to No. 2.
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The Eagles continue to field the best offensive line in the game, and it’s helping them dominate on offense and crush overs each week. Landon Dickerson may still be arguably the unit's weakest link, but it’s an unfair descriptor of a player who has allowed just one pressure through two games. The Eagles play Washington in Week 3, and while the Commanders still have talent on the defensive front, that unit hasn’t shown it can hold up to this kind of assault.
Kansas City showed against the Chargers that it still has an excellent offensive line overall.
Patrick Mahomes was pressured on 36% of his dropbacks, but that was going up against arguably the best edge rush duo in football this season. Consequently,
Orlando Brown Jr. has struggled somewhat this season, earning a 39.2 PFF pass-blocking grade, but he’s not going to face a similar threat against Indianapolis this week.
Technically, rookie Cole Strange is the weakest link on this line, but he was able to go toe-to-toe with
Cameron Heyward in his second start and look capable while doing so. He gave up some pressure and a few more losses that never got to become pressure, but the fact the team believed in him enough to give him that assignment speaks volumes. The Patriots' offense isn’t playing well, but the line isn’t the source of the problem.
This isn’t the line the Jets expected to have before the season began, but it took a step in the right direction this week. Rookie Max Mitchell has surrendered seven pressures and a penalty, and
George Fant has coughed up nine pressures and two penalties. But perhaps the biggest disappointment so far is big-money free agent
Laken Tomlinson, who has surrendered 10 pressures and carries a 35.0 PFF run-blocking grade. If Tomlinson doesn’t improve quickly, that will have been a disastrous addition.
The Bills are cooking right now, but they’ll be hoping that the offensive line — especially now that they’re experiencing injuries — won’t derail the momentum. Center
Mitch Morse left the game injured in Week 2 and has a short week to avoid missing time. Three of the starters carry below-average PFF pass-blocking grades through two weeks, and not one of the starting five has an above-average run-blocking grade.
New signings
Terron Armstead and
Connor Williams continue to look like significant upgrades, with Armstead in particular now owning the best overall grade on the line and yet to allow either a sack or a hit on his quarterback. Liam Eichenberg has allowed six pressures en route to an 18.6 pass-blocking grade. The Bills can deploy pressure all across the front, and Miami needs a better plan at left guard to stop that from becoming an obvious problem.