If I ask you which ones QBs had the ten finest seasons 2016-2025, you’ll get a number of consensus. That is additionally true for RBs, WRs and TEs, as a result of most followers have a tendency to concentrate to the stats that these ball carriers put up. Sadly, it’s a lot tougher for the remainder of the gamers on the offense, i.e. the offensive line.
SISdatahub.com has ten seasons value of particular person efficiency information for offensive linemen which I’ve now compiled/scrubbed into my very own spreadsheet. I did this for each passing snaps and working snaps which they cut up out.
This preliminary put up will have a look at the underside ten general in move blocking and run blocking – the starters who actually sucked. I can even name out the worst Broncos from each lists since no Bronco exhibits up on any of the underside 10 lists.
All stats might be price stats (issues per snap) as a proportion. I’ll deal with blown blocks, sacks allowed and holding penalties. For run snaps, stuffs change sacks. In accordance with SIS a blown block is any time a blocker doesn’t efficiently block the defender they tried to have interaction with and, in consequence, offers the defender a chance to negatively have an effect on the play. A stuff is when that blown block results in a TFL on a working play. Equally a blown block on a passing play will seemingly result in a strain, however might not result in a sack. It ought to be famous that if an OL man finally ends up blocking nobody, they do NOT get a blown block, since they aren’t trying to have interaction a defender. I also needs to point out that offensive linemen ought to block a minimum of one defender on each play, even when it means serving to block a defender who’s already being blocked (simply don’t go low on the defender as that’s now a penalty).
There are 1662 cases of an offensive lineman having 250 or extra move blocking snaps in a season during the last 10 seasons. We’ll name these starters. Essentially the most passing snaps was Matt Feiler for the Chargers in 2022 with 774 move blocking snaps. I’d guess that can also be probably the most ever because the most dropbacks in an everyday season was 762 in by Justin Herbert in 2022. Essentially the most snaps over these ten seasons is by Jake Matthews with 5903 move blocking snaps. He’s one in all 13 gamers who has performed for a crew within the NFL yearly from 2016 to 2025. The others are Kevin Zeitler, Joel Bitonio, Taylor Decker, Rob Havenstein, Ted Karras, Ryan Kelly, Lane Johnson, D.J. Humphries, Jack Conklin, Trent Brown, Andrus Peat, and Lucas Patrick. There are 22 OL gamers who’ve averaged 600 or extra passing snaps per season during the last 10 seasons (beneath). None are Broncos.
OL PlayerSeasons in NFLSum of Passing SnapsPB Snaps/SZNCreed Humphrey53502700Jeremy Zuttah1680680Cordell Volson31994665Zion Johnson42598650Jahri Evans1647647Kelvin Banks1639639Jawaan Taylor74442635Trey Smith53158632Graham Barton21261631Dominick Puni21252626Tate Ratledge1619619Aireontae Ersery1614614Joe Thuney95516613Tristan Wirfs63673612Delmar Glaze21222611Donovan Smith84881610Armand Membou1610610Joe Tippmann31825608Penei Sewell53038608Darnell Wright31818606Tyler Smith42421605Alejandro Villanueva63614602
Garret Bolles has probably the most of any Bronco with 544 per season.
Joe Thuney has not solely been probably the greatest guards within the league for many of his profession, however he has even be amazingly sturdy. Like him, there are many All Execs and Professional-Bowlers on the above checklist.
With a minimal of 250 PB snaps listed here are the worst of the worst beneath. Blown block proportion is proven first. Normal caveat is that sacks are as a lot a QB stat as they’re an OL stat. I’ve this information for the entire time-frame (complete sacks and OL sacks allowed); if you wish to see it, let me know within the feedback.
Only a few of these unhealthy starters performed a full season, in order that they had been both changed due to harm/ineffectiveness or they changed a starter due to harm. Most groups throw greater than 500 passes in a season within the fashionable NFL. The worst current Bronco by way of PBB% is Mike McGlinchey in 2023 at 6.59%.
We should always word that just about each participant within the backside 10 right here performed OT. OT is way more tough from a move blocking perspective than any of the IOL positions. That is partly as a consequence of dealing with the most effective move rushers on the opposing protection more often than not.
Tom Compton was speculated to a superb run blocker, however he was atrocious as a move blocker. His last season within the NFL was 2022 with the Broncos (he performed 29 complete snaps). He allowed 24 sacks on 1298 profession PB snaps – 1.85%. It’s onerous to surrender that many sacks within the fashionable NFL with fast passing video games. From a time-span perspective, that’s twenty sixth worst (2016-2025). Ty Sambrailo, says maintain my beer although. Ty completed his profession with 2.01%. The worst is Conor McDermott who allowed 13 sacks on 440 profession snaps (2017-2023) – 2.95%. In case you carry the minimal snaps all the way down to 100, Ty tops the checklist at 6.90% (and second worst isn’t shut). He allowed eight sacks on 116 PB snaps in 2016. Throughout these 10 seasons, that’s the worst sack% allowed for a participant with 100 or extra move block snaps. Tom Compton’s two sacks on 18 passing snaps in 2022 for the Broncos can also be horrible, however a minimum of the 2022 Broncos didn’t preserve enjoying him just like the 2016 Broncos did with Ty. The second worst sack % allowed in a season for was 5.6% by Byron Bell of the Cowboys in 2017. He allowed seven sacks on 125 move block snaps.
4 guys present up on the blown block and sack worst prime 10: Andre Dillard (2023), Spencer Drango (2017), Nicolas Petit-Frere (2024), and Patrick Mekari (2023). It makes you marvel why they had been nonetheless enjoying. Possibly the had been nice run blockers, or possibly the fellows behind them had been even worse at move blocking. Drango was out of the NFL after 2017. 2023 was Dillard’s solely 12 months as a starter. Petit-Frere didn’t play in 2025 after being terribad in 2024. Of the 5, solely Mekari has been a superb participant after his lone unhealthy season. In 2024 he had 482 passing snaps and solely allowed two sacks; examine that to 2023 when he allowed eight on 295. He was a starter for the Jaguars final season. I ought to word that Mekari is respectable guard, however a horrible sort out. In 2023 he was filling in for an injured Ronnie Stanley at LT and a few at RT.
I put run blocking second because the run sport appears to be incrementally shedding floor to the move sport each season. That being mentioned, the run sport has been gaining floor, if you’ll, since 2015 when passing yardage proportion peaked at 70.4%. So the run sport, and run blocking, is turning into extra mandatory for OL guys than it was in 2015 and 2016. The graph beneath is passing yards divided by complete yards from scrimmage within the NFL by season. Go yardage proportion seems to be trending again all the way down to roughly 65% which is the place it was within the early a part of this century.
There have been 850 offensive lineman who’ve had a minimum of one run blocking snap, however there are 1364 cases of a participant having 250 or extra run blocking snaps (starters).
No gamers seem on each the RBB and stuff backside 10 lists.
In distinction with move blocking the place it was nearly all tackles, there are NO tackles on this checklist of the worst 10 particular person blown block proportion on runs for beginning offensive linemen. The one occasion from final season was Cam Jurgens who was the middle for the Eagles. That 2023 Giants OL should have been hell to run behind with each John Michael Schmitz and Justin Pugh on this checklist. That was Saquon Barkley’s last season with the Giants they usually ranked 18th in yard per try that season. With a significantly better run blocking OL in 2024, Barkley topped 2000 dashing yards. Barkley averaged 3.9 YPC in 2023 and that jumped to five.8 in 2024 in Philly.
The worst Bronco was Luke Wattenberg who had a blown run block % of 4.83 in 2024 – 14 blown run blocks on 290 run blocking snaps. That’s twenty first worst.
Whereas there have been no tackles within the blown block worst, there are a selection of them within the run stuff worst: TJ Clemmings, Chris Hubbard, and Dion Dawkins. That Vikings OL in 2016 should have been horrible for run blocking with two guys (Clemmings and Brandon Fusco) on this checklist.
The Bronco starter who had the worst season by way of getting stuffed on run performs was Ben Powers in 2024. His stuff% was 1.84 – 7 stuffs on 380 run snaps. That’s the 62nd worst.
For reference right here is how all the Bronco offensive linemen fared in run blocking in 2025.
Ben Powers continued to be our worst OL man for getting stuffed in 2025. Bolles was the most effective at not blowing blocks on run performs amongst starters at 1.29%, however it ought to be famous that Frank Crum had no blown blocks on his 38 run blocking snaps – nearly all because the sixth offensive lineman. Sam Mustipher’s one blown block on two run block snaps is comically unhealthy.
I’ll observe up with the highest 10 in some unspecified time in the future in July. Completely happy 4th of July!
